Teaching High School English

Tips, lesson plans, teaching articles, and motivational quotes for that most amazing and magical beast, the HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER.
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Creating a Writers' Workshop in a Secondary Classroom
With the station rotation model, secondary students can focus on language arts skills such as analysis, structure, and academic writing while improving their overall writing quality.
Printing on Sticky Notes!
This is a great way to print on sticky notes! They even provide the free template!
13 Short Stories for Engaging Secondary Students & Teaching Literary Elements
Don't let your literature anthology dictate the short stories you read with your middle school and high school students. There are so many wonderful short stories out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and paired with other texts. Read on for 13 of my favorites, which literary terms and skills they lend themselves to teaching, plus suggested text pairings and activities.
"You Are" for My Middle School, Language Arts Classroom
The Inspired Classroom: "You Are" for My Middle School, Language Arts Classroom
Parent/ Teacher Conferences ✔️ put this out for the parents. It was so cute having the kids write about what they're proud of their learning so far (yesterday) and the parent comments added today are even sweeter! #parentteacherconference#arentprife#iteachtoo#alwayscreating#alwayslearning#kidpresident#kidspiration#proudmoment#postits#secondgrade
A "Quotation Station" for a middle school Language Arts classroom. Each week this teacher places a new quote on the hanging chalkboard and has the kids copy the quote down in a section of their binder. During "free time" the students refer to the quotes and practice their explanatory/connection making skills.
The first lines of some of the most iconic books ever written
The first line (or first few lines) of the most famous books of all time - Imgur
The Ugly Girl by Nova-Bee on DeviantArt
I really want to use this the next time I teach "Frankenstein."