Teaching English Lit

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.

Short selections? Full novels or plays? Which is better? Here are some ideas that came from an English Department meeting

Use your own reflection and student completed evaluations to improve your teaching.

A teacher's job never seems to be done, so read and then e-mail and share some summer ideas.

Using the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list as a teacher's reading list for summer.

Creating and understanding the simile helps students identify and explain similes in various literary works.

At this time of year, students are looking for jobs. In this article you will find information on how to fill out job applications.

Do you have students who will not pass this semester? Maybe they should enroll in summer school.

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.

Here is a group short story project that your students just might enjoy toward the end of the school year.