The Elements of Literature
Teach EVERY reading literature and reading informational text common core state standard using inspirational and engaging short films and video clips! For an entire year of highly engaging, no prep…
The Best Anchor Charts for your ELA classroom all together in one place! You will find outlines to utilize in Reading Literature, Reading Informational, Writing and Language. Explained in this blog post is about the purpose of utilizing anchor charts in your daily instruction. Along with tips to organize your charts. Below is a collection […]
20 Authors of Japanese Literature *Note: The following list follows the traditional Japanese order of writing full names with surname first followed by given name without comma. 1.Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 – c. 1014) Murasaki Shikibu is a representative author … Continue reading →
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Discover the 8 periods in english literature and download and print the FREE literary timeline to use in the classroom or at home.
Learn who Shakespeare was, the world that he was born into and helped to shape, and the reason his plays and poetry are considered to be the work of a genius.
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The world is a difficult place, and we're all in need of some healing. From memoirs to self-help to fiction, here are the best healing books.
The desire to avoid social events where I don't know many people stems back to my need for acceptance and fear of rejection.
I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down.
From Aldous Huxley to Steven Pinker, read a list of Israeli intellectual and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari's favorite book recommmendations.
Art and history Pandas, you’re in for a treat today! Comedy lovers, get in here, too. We’re featuring some of the best new classical art and art history memes from the wildly popular r/trippinthroughtime subreddit.
Reading a piece of fiction is like an invitation to escape the immediate world and immerse yourself in fantasy. You’re expected to put your disbeliefs aside and blot out any distractions to fully experience the story. But some passages in those same books are so blatantly disrespectful and hilariously inaccurate that they can leave half of the population straight-up rolling their eyes. You guessed it, we’re talking about male authors portraying female characters and missing the mark by a long, long shot.
“Not even Snape could Severus apart.”
Continuing our epic journey towards Shakespeare's 400th death anniversary on Saturday, here is a handy-dandy board game that allows you to relive all the exciting ups and downs of this master playwright's eventful life!
Plenty of us loves to read. Or say that we do. But finding the time to do so is, more often than not, much more difficult than we’d like. After a hard day at work or school, instead of snuggling up with a doggo, a steaming mug of hot cocoa, and a good novel, we usually end up being couch potatoes in front of the TV or computer screen.
In a new biography of 1890s sexual activist Ida C. Craddock, Heaven's Bride, professor Leigh Eric Schmidt brings to light the life of the little-known "mystic, martyr, and madwoman."
20 weeks later and "A Stick Figure Macbeth" has finally come to an end. In case you're just joining me, here's what happened during the past 20 weeks:
As an avid reader of many of the novels in the Discworld series, by the late Sir Terry Pratchett, I find some of the humour creeps into my posts here and there....
--Extra Freebie Alert-- Have you ever wished that you had a short story that specifically taught metaphors, idioms, hyperbole, personification, etc.? Try out a printable mini booklet for free from my new figurative language series. Each booklet has many instances of a specific figurative language skill occurring many times within a short story. Each booklet also comes with a worksheet to determine if students understand each skill. Try it out for free. Click Here To Access It Choice BoardsI love choice boards so much. Not only are they fun, but they also appeal to different learning styles. I created this choice board to use with my students. The great thing about it is that choice boards can be used with any book. How to use them: After assigning a chapter for students to read, ask them to select an activity to complete from the list. Since there are multiple activities to choose from, students can use the same choice board over and over again. Use this free reading resource in your classroom. Click Here To Access This Free Literature Choice Board
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Hispanic Millennials by the numbers. What are they like and how do they differ from other Hispanics or other Gen Yrs? Read on.
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
Romance is a hard thing to convey over text, no matter how strong your game is. But what if the literary greats that inspired romance itself put cellphones in the hands of their most beloved characters?