Teaching Reading with Literature

I really enjoyed this class, and I like how I had the opportunity to read both Y.A. lit and canonical texts this year. I found Classics in t...

Jago begins the chapter by addressing the issue of  national standards. I agree that our country should have a national consensus of what st...

Overall, I learned that there are so many different texts I have available to me as an English teacher other than print. I am very intereste...

Over the weekend I saw Water for Elephants , a film based off of Sara Gruen's novel. Because we focused on films this semester, I sta...

Last night, I continued reading Deadline for the Facebook assignment. The story is about a senior in high school named Ben who finds out tha...

            When I first drew The Help as my assigned text at the beginning of the semester, I was a little disappointed. Most of my cla...

Text and Dialogue  Narration: Pinocchio Vampire Slayer- Told from first person POV. Naruto- Told from third person POV. Balloons: ...