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Florida High School English Teacher Online Blog Blogs about her classroom ideas, assignments, rewards, etc. High school classroom stuff, decor, etc. --That Tattooed Teacher

If you are a high school English teacher you know that the first week back to school is critical for establishing classroom routines, setting expectations, developing norms, and getting to know your students. You also need to get into some meaningful content! This is every lesson you need for that first week of school! I walk you through how to establish a safe place of learning, how to create classroom norms, and what content your students will be most successful with that first week of…

Happy August! We got home from our six day road trip last night, and now it’s time for me to buckle down and start thinking about BACK TO SCHOOL. Our first teacher work day is August 17th, so I’m less than two weeks away now… In honor of that, I thought I’d bring back “Teaching Tuesday”...Read More »

Looking for games to play with a classroom? This list of English games in the classroom is exactly what you need to engage students!

Are you ready to move beyond your staple TED talks for high school English? Here are 15 talks (aside from The Danger of a Single Story) that you can use as writing prompts, as a part of a Socratic Seminar or discussion assignment, as a stand-alone lesson or as a part of a larger unit or speaking assignment. They are sure to engage and entertain! #englishlanguagearts #highschoolenglish #tedtalks #googleclassroom

When you were a kid people told you "sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you." Wrong. The one word project...

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These English teacher supplies are must haves for quick ELA lesson plans. Pair your back to school wish list with ideas for English teachers!

There is a lot to be learned from the literary classics Shakespeare wrote. English teachers of all levels will love this one! Check out the classroom posters in my Etsy shop. Middle or high school students will find them relatable!

A lineup of fun books, products, websites, and social media accounts for English teachers I've discovered and loved recently in the course of my various projects. #teacherpodcast #iteachela #englishteacher

Teachers have all heard the mantra “work smarter, not harder,” but what does that really look like for a middle school or high school English teacher when there are lesson plans to make and plenty of papers to grade. Check out these 26 tips to find some calm in the middle of your English language arts school year. #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela

5 creative first day of school activities for high school English so you can ditch the syllabus and start getting to know your students!

There are so many positive classroom ideas for high school that high school teachers should steal from the elementary world...

The perfect place for students to learn how and to practice critical reading, writing, arguing, and even listening is the high school English classroom. Here are 10 different high school English lessons and skills that teachers should teach in 2023! Includes: rhetorical appeals, logical fallacies, systhesis writing, email etiquette, paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, text annotation. peer editing & more! See www.thedaringenglishteacher.com for more engaging Secondary ELA resources and tips!

Start back to school on the right note with these first day activities for middle school ELA and high school English class!

By Presto Plans I first realized the power of bell ringers years ago, thanks to a particularly unruly class that would bounce off my walls after lunch. After consistently wasting the first ten minutes of class getting students seated, settled, and ready to learn, I decided to give bell-ringers a try. They were immediately a classroom game-changer. Bell-ringers—sometimes referred to as “warm ups” or “do nows”— are questions, tasks, or other warm up activities that students complete at the…