
American literture
A Must-Read: “Sticks” by George Saunders
Looking for a one-page short story from a modern writer that’ll hook your students? Sticks, a flash fiction short story

Looking for a one-page short story from a modern writer that’ll hook your students? Sticks, a flash fiction short story

Literary analysis is the hardest writing mode to teach. Narrative, research, and argument? Got those covered. But literary analysis? Oof.

I’m about 100 years late to the party, but I just discovered Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House” and need to

Please allow me introduce you to Andy Weir’s tasty morsel of a short story called, “The Egg.” The story, part

As every English teacher knows, dystopian young adult literature is on fire. Hunger Games. The Maze Runner. Divergent. Matched. Uglies.

It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been up since before the sun, working my way through three sections of essays on “The