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How To Organize Your World Literature Class
Master Your World Literature Class Planning 💡✏ | Simplify your prep with these 3 organization methods! Perfect for high school English teachers.
Teaching Internment: Why Your Student Will Love This Novel - It's Lit Teaching
Looking for that next groundbreaking novel for your classroom? Hoping for something that will not only engage your students but inspire courageous conversations? Internment by Samira Ahmed is a brave, exciting, and relevant novel, and it is one that you will need on your classroom shelves! Read to find out what makes this novel great. #itslitteaching #internment #samiraahmed #bookreview #highschoolenglish #secondaryela
How To Organize Your World Literature Class
Organize Your World Literature Class with Ease! 🗺🎓 | Learn 3 effective ways to structure your lessons: by region, theme, or skill.
Creative Writing Workshop: Precise and Concise Language Mini Lesson
Strengthen student writing! This lesson teaches the importance of precision and conciseness in strong writing. Students will receive a handout of tips to edit or better their own writing before editing weak writing on a worksheet. This lesson includes everything, requires no prep, and will mean much better writing to read throughout the quarter! Click to check it out! #itslitteaching #creativewriting #teachingwriting #highschoolenglish #secondaryela #tpt #lessonplan #noprep #teacherspayteachers
How To Organize Your World Literature Class
Organize Your World Literature Class with Ease! 🗺🎓 | Learn 3 effective ways to structure your lessons: by region, theme, or skill.
How To Organize Your World Literature Class
Transform Your World Literature Class 🌍📘 | Teach global perspectives with these 3 organizing strategies—geography, theme, and skill.
Have you thought about teaching The Hate U Give in your high school class? Wondering if the lessons
Have you thought about teaching The Hate U Give in your high school class? Wondering if the lessons are worth dealing with the controversy in a school setting? This post talks through one teacher's experiences, laying out the pros, cons, and challenges. Click to read or pin for later! #itslitteaching #thehateugive #thug #angiethomas #highschoolenglish #secondaryela
How To Organize Your World Literature Class
Need Ideas for Your World Literature Class? 🌏📖 | Explore how to teach literature by geography, theme, or skill to engage students!
A Hands-on Approach to Teach Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
Get these 24 double-sided reasoning cards! They will have students identifying, evaluating, and studying reasoning. You can use these task cards as independent, partner, or group activities. You can even use them with the whole class as a one-a-day warm-up or exit questions! These task cards are a review tool that you can use again and again, year after year. #cerpractice #writingpractice #englishlanguagearts #highschool #digitalresource #readytoprint
Teaching Creative Writing: Tips for Your High School Class
Are you teaching a high school creative writing class, but you're not sure where to begin? This blog post is full of great tips for the first-time creative writing teacher. Click to check them out! #itslitteaching #higschoolenglish #secondaryela #creativewriting
Holiday Character Analysis Worksheet for ANY Novel
Wanting to add some holiday spirit to your classroom without adding a free-for-all? This seasonal character analysis worksheet is a great activity for any secondary English class. Students will answer holiday-themed questions around a character, stoking their free-thinking and creativity. This makes for an excellent literature station, half-day activity, or December review. #itslitteaching #characteranalysis #highschoolenglish #secondaryela #holidaystations
Teaching Creative Writing: Tips for Your High School Class
Have you been asked to teach creative writing at your high school? Not sure where to start or what to even include in your elective course? This post covers some essential tips for teaching creative writing at the high school level! If you're feeling overwhelmed or uninspired, check out this post to help you get started! #itslitteaching #higschoolenglish #secondaryela #creativewriting
"Nicholas Was..." Holiday Analysis and Activity
Are you looking for a rigorous, but fun holiday-themed activity for you high school English classroom? "Nicholas Was..." is a 100-word story by Neil Gaiman that ends in holiday twist! Have your students analyze the quick read before writing their own 100-word story. Great as a review or literary station. This can even be a sub plan Click to find out more about this teaching resource! #itslitteachiing #nicholaswas #neilgaiman #holiday #christmas #teaching #highschoolenglish #secondaryela #tpt
How to Teach When Students Are Years Behind
What do you do when your high school students are reading and writing like elementary students? How are you supposed to get them proficient with semicolons and clauses when they can't even use a period? This blog post talks about the importance of ditching the big project in favor of practicing the essential skills--and hopefully bridging some of the educational gap. Click to start making progress! #itslitteaching #highschoolenglish #secondaryela #reluctantreaders #title1school #lessonplanning
Holiday Character Analysis Worksheet for ANY Novel
Looking to infuse some holiday fun into your high school English classroom? Want to take a moment to celebrate but worried about straying too far from the curriculum? This character analysis worksheet works for ANY CHARACTER and allows students to be creative and season while still using their minds. This resource is perfect for lame duck days, student enrichment, and exhausted classes. Click to see a full preview!#itslitteaching #highschoolenglish#secondaryela #holidaystations #holiday #tpt