Sophomore english

Poetry is a great way to help students practice inference because so much of poetry lives between the lines. Poets have to be so precise with words and phrases that a great deal of emotion is only ever implied. To help students practice inference, I've put together this collection of 10 engaging poems!

Teaching Shakespeare's language, particularly thou & you, can help students understand characters' rank and relationship. Here are some tips! (blog post)

Synthesis is a step up from analysis. This step takes careful planning. Follow these steps to help students move to synthesis thinking!

Get students writing within the first week with these 5 great ideas, including creative options, formal options, and flexible choices.

Short stories are easily one of my favorite types of texts to teach! They are short, which the students already appreciate, but they are also jam-packed with so much complexity and meaning! An author can embed messages and observations about life in ways that informational texts cannot, and this makes reading them that much more enjoyable! Teaching short stories and teaching students how to interpret and analyze a short story can be overwhelming. There is so much packed into one short story…

This 10th grade reading list is full of books that are perfect for high school students. It can even be used as the base of a homeschool world literature class.

Use Grammar Fails to Engage Students

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English Speaking Phrases, Daily Conversation in English For Speaking Daily Conversation in English For Speaking When speaking English, some expressions are simple and appear quite often in everyday use. By learning this kind of sentence and question patterns, you can establish dialogues very easily and you can easily reply to messages and e-mails. By learning the most basic English sentence patterns and question phrases, you can start dialogue in every field very easily. These molds…

Traditionally, curriculum maps are developed based on one, golden goal: meeting standards. In my experience and research, standards are not only different in different parts of the world, but oftentimes are limiting or inaccurate representations of the big picture of what students need to learn in a