The Relevance Trap It’s become the go-to question when English teachers are looking for new texts to teach: My students don’t read the books I used to assign. These old books don’t have anything to do with my students’ lives. They can’t see themselves in my usual texts. What new texts can I teach thatContinue reading “How to make any text relevant to your students using essential questions”
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Beginning a unit with a preview text: Using the Amleth legend to introduce Shakespeare’s Hamlet
There’s a certain kind of student who loves to remind you that Shakespeare “stole” most of his stories from other sources, usually citing this as a reason why the bard isn’t so great after all. But this knowledge can also be used to a teacher’s advantage. I like to start off my teaching of HamletContinue reading “Beginning a unit with a preview text: Using the Amleth legend to introduce Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
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