How to Create a Theme Tracker Graphic Organizer Bookmark in 5 Easy Steps
Are you tired of your current theme tracker graphic organizer? Maybe you are frustrated by your students forgetting to think about their theme as they read a novel. Friend, I was in the same spot as you for so long! My students struggled to find a theme and they didn’t think about that theme until […]
Easy Poems to Teach How to Write an Analysis on a Poem
It’s March and you know that means it’s time to teach your students how to write an analysis on a poem. As National Poetry Month descends, your feeds are inundated with poetry activities, poems to teach, and of course poetry march madness brackets. You want to teach poetry but there are just too many ways […]
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 […]
Teaching Theme with “The Sneetches”
The Importance of Theme and Literary Analysis Teaching theme is one of the most important concepts I teach in my class. Themes are something that students have learned before but this unit is the first time that they will have to apply literary analysis to theme in a formal essay. I find that students grapple […]