I recently finished J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter & the Cursed Child and then went online and read some reviews (as one does). And I saw an alarming pattern in quite a few...
How do academics show how much they love stuff? They either write papers/articles about the things they love or create assignments about the things they love. One of my best...
This fall, I'm teaching a fiction writing class for the first time, and I'm super excited. Because I've never taught the class before, I'm using a co-worker's syllabus....
I have a confession. I was terrified to teach poetry. As part of the Writing about Literature course at my school, there are three units: fiction, drama, and poetry. I have a...
I actually got the idea for this activity from The Bedford Introduction to Literature (10th edition) edited by Michael Meyer. One of the creative response assignment...
I don't know about anybody else, but teaching my students how to do a Works Cited page can be tedious at best. If I go over it in class, it's like they don't hear me. I tell...
Or costumes and character. Whichever is your pleasure. Welcome to my new feature! I'm going to start blogging about teaching here since (a) I hate having two blogs and (b)...