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 […]
How to Create a Fun and Thrilling Short Story Lesson for High School
As high school English teachers, we all know we need to create a short story lesson or unit because that is a major focus of our standards. However, creating that unit and making it enjoyable for both us and our students can be a challenge. Finding the best texts to fit their needs, covering the […]
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, […]