High school english lesson plans

Keep all of your lesson plans for the whole school year in one streamlined easy-to-access place with a Google Sheets Lesson Plan Template!

If you are a high school English teacher you know that the first week back to school is critical for establishing classroom routines, setting expectations, developing norms, and getting to know your students. You also need to get into some meaningful content! This is every lesson you need for that first week of school! I walk you through how to establish a safe place of learning, how to create classroom norms, and what content your students will be most successful with that first week of…

This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and

In today’s society, it is important that students can use their critical thinking skills in their everyday lives. The perfect place for students to learn how and to practice critical reading, writing, arguing, and even listening is the high school English classroom. Here are 10 critical high school English lessons and skills that teachers should be teaching their students!

It’s every teacher’s most stressful, most highly anticipated, and most powerful time of the year: back to school! After over a decade of first days back to school, I’ve finally found a plan for the first ten days that streamlines the three most important things for me: routines,

Download this free template to help you build a pacing guide for your high school English curriculum. Whether you're creating a curriculum from scratch or just updating some older documents, this template will help keep student-centered instruction at the top of your list and also help you build inquiry units driven by essential questions.

Finding great resources online is the best! In this post (and podcast episode) I’m sharing my favorite sites for free creative lesson plans and teaching ideas online. Listen in below, or read on to learn about my favorite online resources.

You’re welcome! Here are 15 TED talks for the classroom that are sure to prompt discussion, writing, and reflection...

Full year lesson plans provide huge time savings to busy teachers. It is important to have lesson structures and assignments in your classroom that can be used all year.

This is the second post in a two-part series about literary themes to study in high school. You can begin by reading part one here. English teachers have so many...