How to Master the Art of Author’s Style: A Powerful Guide for Impactful Literary Analysis
Ever notice how hard it is to teach an author’s style to your students? While teaching plot or conflict is easy for students to grasp, the author’s style is an elusive concept that is hard to nail down. Sometimes it feels like it’s hard for use ELA teachers even to know what to look for. […]
7 Simple Short Story Literary Prompts You Need for Your Classroom
Searching for an authentic way to help your students analyze short story literary elements? As ELA teachers, we know that our students struggle to move past identifying literary elements to analyzing their purpose. So often my students feel like it’s enough that they found the conflict. But let’s be real. We should be expecting so […]
Teaching Literary Elements The Best Way At The Beginning of the Year
We are past the first few days of getting-to-know-you activities and we read to start teaching literary elements to our students. By high school, most of our students know the elements of a short story even if they claim that they don’t! But, teaching story elements can be tedious. And, we don’t want to create […]
Create Your English 10 Short Story Unit in 5 Easy Steps
Looking for a refresh on your English 10 short story unit? Still, trying to figure out where to start? Maybe the thought of a short story unit rewrite seems too daunting. Friend, I am here for you! I want to make your life easy. In this post, I will give you my English 10 short […]
Five First Week of Class Activities for High School ELA
If you are like me, you might be starting the second semester which means planning your first week of class activities. Having to start over can be a great thing but at the same time, you just don’t have that same excitement that the beginning of the year brings. So, what better way to get […]
How to Teach Literary Elements in a Story in an Engaging Way
Literary elements in a story are some of the major standards covered in an curriculum especially in high school but sometimes those lessons can become dry. By the time our students reach us in high school, we expect them to know about point of view or conflict or characterization. BUT and that’s a big BUT, […]