high school english

Creative Ideas on How To Teach Romeo and Juliet for High School

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022

Romeo and Juliet is a standard text read in ninth grade classrooms in thousands of high schools. Even though I am the first to push more modern texts, I am also acutely aware of the benefits our classical texts can offer. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t find ways …

Argument Writing Practice using Mock Trials in Classrooms

April 8, 2022February 7, 2022

I remember seeing Metamorphosis on our 9th grade pacing guide and thought that my district was CRAZY for requiring it for ninth graders yet it turned out to be one of my students’ favorite stories especially the culminating writing activity in which we put the characters on trial using mock …