What Are Essential Questions? This term, like so many others, has become a buzzword in education over the last several years, but in secondary ELA, essential questions truly can be helpful for you when developing your units and curriculum. Typically open-ended, essential questions are thought-provoking questions that will allow your students to connect the literature …
Let’s talk about 9th 9th-grade English curriculum. Whether you are a seasoned teacher who has been assigned a new prep or you are brand new to teaching 9th-grade ELA, your situation is the same: you need a plan for what you’ll teach this year, stat. Fortunately for you, I love teaching 9th-grade ELA, and I’ve …
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Creating a World Lit. curriculum can be overwhelming. Especially if this is your first couple of years teaching it. Do you teach thematically or chronologically? Should you pace your units with the World History class, so that students have some overlap, or should you focus more on topics that feel more relevant to your students? …
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