Teen Literacy Tips

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’d also love to hear what you have to say, so please feel free to comment on any post. Thanks for visiting!“The Raven” is a great poem to study around this time of year, and one fun way of engaging [...]

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October is the best month of the year.  October brings golden leaves, baseball playoffs, high school football, and Halloween.  It’s no wonder so many authors and musicians have written about this most evocative of months.  Consider this passage from Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes:

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Poetry isn’t dead, it’s just been beaten into submission. That seems to be the fear of poet Billy Collins in his poem “Introduction to Poetry.” To breathe life into poetry, Collins and the Library of Congress have developed Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools.

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Wow! I looked at the download statistics for my Scribd documents and was amazed to see that 292 people viewed my unfinished Dead Poets Society Teaching Unit this month. I wonder how many people would view it if it were actually finished. Here’s a roundup of my top 5 documents, sorted by total number of [...]

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Overcoming students’ prejudices against poetry can be one of the most difficult challenges a literature teacher faces. Fortunately, The Poetry Archive has the tools you need to break the anti-poetry frame of mind.

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