How I Resist is nonfiction book that provides multiple opportunities for use in a secondary classroom. This book is political and will inspire classroom discussions. It contains three dozen opinions…
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Informational Texts: Activities for Secondary ELA
Do you need informational texts and activities? Look no more! Don’t let informational texts seem like a “downer” in your classroom. Find texts that are meaningful to teenagers. Look for…
Teaching Nonfiction in an Organized Way
Teaching nonfiction? I almost titled this, “how to teach nonfiction without putting your students to sleep or confusing them.” This is a look into my nonfiction lessons. I teach nonfiction…
Inquiry Based Learning from Frontier
Inquiry based learning for the digital classroom. I teach at a 1:1 school. All my students have iPads, and we use Google Classroom. I’m becoming capable with design and extensions.…
Student Nonfiction Articles and Responses
You have student nonfiction and student reading nonfiction… now what? When students read nonfiction, have them respond in writing. Why? Students become passionate about ideas that shape the real world…
Student Inspired Nonfiction Resources
Nonfiction articles, nonfiction resources, nonfiction standards, finding relative nonfiction: nonfiction is in vogue for ELA classrooms. Not only do the common core standards stress nonfiction, but teachers also realize that…
Nonfiction Resources for High School
Looking for nonfiction resources for high school students can take time. Free or paid, finding nonfiction that will help you meet standards and interest students can be an endless search.…
Henry David Thoreau Lesson Plan
Henry David Thoreau is a staple in American Literature curriculum. Taught during the transcendentalism time period, students analyze his writing and write about him. Other times they interpret what his…