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

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

A Short Story You Should Know
I’m about 100 years late to the party, but I just discovered Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House” and need to…

Sci Fi To Make Us Better People
Please allow me introduce you to Andy Weir’s tasty morsel of a short story called, “The Egg.” The story, part…

Brave New World?
As every English teacher knows, dystopian young adult literature is on fire. Hunger Games. The Maze Runner. Divergent. Matched. Uglies.…
No More Essay Fatigue! Time to Reclaim Your Weekends
It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been up since before the sun, working my way through three sections of essays on “The…