Teaching English Lit
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TEACHING POETIC FORMS
Want to teach your students to appreciate the difficulty that poets have in creating their pieces? Try having them follow traditional forms of poetry to create poems of their own. Here are some traditional poetic forms to have your class work on creating.
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Anthology Selections vs Complete Works
Short selections? Full novels or plays? Which is better? Here are some ideas that came from an English Department meeting
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Reflect, Review, Revise to Improve Your Teaching
Use your own reflection and student completed evaluations to improve your teaching.
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Teachers Need Time Off, Too
A teacher's job never seems to be done, so read and then e-mail and share some summer ideas.
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A Teacher's Summer Reading List
Using the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list as a teacher's reading list for summer.
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Teaching the Simile
Creating and understanding the simile helps students identify and explain similes in various literary works.
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Applications and Interviews
At this time of year, students are looking for jobs. In this article you will find information on how to fill out job applications.
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Summer School??
Do you have students who will not pass this semester? Maybe they should enroll in summer school.
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Motivation in the Classroom
Where does motivation come from, the teacher or the students? There are many different ways to teach, but not all of them work with today's students.
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Group Presentation of Short Stories
Here is a group short story project that your students just might enjoy toward the end of the school year.
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Reality of the Literature Portion of GED
What to inform your students about on the literary portion of the GED
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Have Your Seniors Read These???
Although many seniors believe that they are ready for the college level English and literature courses, many professors have literary works with which they expect incoming freshmen to be acquainted with but that have not been taught in high school. Here is one list.
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Create Assessments with Technology
Looking for a way to assess student knowledge and understanding without pen and paper? Try creating a pull-down self-assessment on the computer.
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Group Communication Analysis with Apollo 13
Include a film accompanied by a writing assignment to deal with group communication.
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Speech Building Kit for Beginners
Here is a way to take your students through the process of a researched speech. As I utilize this "kit" and its directions, I walk my students through a sample student's researched speech.
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The Plague of Plagiarism
Plagued with students who plagiarize papers? Here are some ideas to keep a check on students work as they go through the research process and internet sites that can help you search the internet for duplicate papers.
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Ideas to Use for Great Expectations (stage I)
In teaching a novel, students get bored easily when all they do is read and discuss. Here are some ideas to give variety to your teaching of Great Expectations.
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Grammar in 10 minutes a day
Are you ready for a different way to get through those grammar chapters with your high school students who think that since they have heard it before, they know it all? Read on to see how to section out your grammar so that you get results. Includes grammar links.
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Book Review: South of Heaven
Review of a nonfiction look at a high school at the end of the twentieth century.
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Final Review Activities
Two ideas to use to review for semester finals
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Reading is Boring (a commentary)
A commentary of students refusal to read
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Connect With Parents/Students After School VIA Internet
Using internet communities for the classroom
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Poetry Portfolio
a look at what a poetry unit portfolio might contain
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Begin the Year With Poetry
A different way to begin your unit about poetry.
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Increasing Student Vocabulary
Thoughts on the teaching of vocabulary.
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