Expressive Writing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
I moved to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as a naïve 22-year-old teacher in 2009, with high hopes and big plans to instill my love of writing in my 80 incoming middle ...
Poetry
How to Teach Like a Fool
One of my most influential teaching mentors is a secondary character from a sixteenth century Shakespearean play. I was introduced to the “wise fool” from King Lear in my last ...
Murder and Mayhem: Shakespeare in the Classroom
Does the thought of teaching A Midsummer’s Night Dream give you nightmares? This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, renewing attention on a man whom ...
Let’s Do Haiku!
Through careful observation and crisp language, haiku draw attention to phenomena that might otherwise go unnoticed. For the writer and the reader, haiku presents things in a ...
10 Ways to Read a Poem Out Loud
Try reading the poem as a group sitting in a circle. The poem is read with each person reading one word in turn.