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Zoom Link to AP Lit. Webinar
I cordially invite you and your students to a FREE cram session this coming Thursday night. In brief, I’ll be…
Read issue →(Free Webinars) AP Test Prep & Alternative Grading Methods
There’s lots going on … so I thought I’d send a quick note. First, this coming Tuesday night at 7:30 EST, I am hosting a…
Read issue →(Free Webinar) Alternative Grading Methods
I am happy to announce that I will be hosting a FREE webinar that will showcase my alternative grading methods on…
Read issue →Change My Mind: Today's Music Is Garbage!! (Argument Paper)
When I sit down to make a lesson plan or unit, the first question I ask myself is this: will this engage my most…
Read issue →You Don't "NEED" to Grade Essays This Weekend!
The bane of the English teacher’s existence is the sheer volume of grading we “need” to do. Ever since the one-room…
Read issue →Will Smith's Oscar Speech
Only in the strange context of this academic year can a teacher garner a million lesson plan ideas from merely…
Read issue →You Don't Need to Grade Essays This Weekend!!
If you have begrudgingly made weekend plans to grade that heaping stack of papers you’ve put off for far too long … I…
Read issue →Using Kanye West's Poem "Divorce" to Teach Rhetorical/Literary Reads
Given that most things feel extremely arduous this year, I am embracing the fact that I need to think way out of the box…
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