On the day after state testing, one of my sophomores burst into the room and announced: “Mr. G, I used rule of three on my essay.” It was a proud moment. Rule of Three is the concept that words or phrases are inherently more appealing in groups of...
Read More
For most of the past year and half, I have spent most of my waking hours querying or obsessing over querying literary agents for my young adult novel...
Most AP® European History teachers try to pace their class by killing Napoleon prior to winter break. Hopefully the attached lesson plan will be...
Just last week, my oldest son asked me what I wanted for Christmas. My answer? Nothing.
One of the most vexing problems facing students and teachers alike is the teaching of Federalist #10. Federalist #10 and the issue of factions is...
In recent months I learned, along with others around the world, of the horrific stories of the mass unmarked grave sites of Indigenous, or...
The way authors structure their books is sometimes jaw-dropping. So impressive that by the end you hug it tight, knowing it taught you something, or...
Like most kids ushered though elementary school in the days when the Charlie Brown holiday specials aired on television once a year and if you missed...
Everything happens somewhere. Hester and Pearl live on the outskirts of town; George and Lennie start off in the wilderness but then live on a farm;...
I must have convinced you of the need to build a classroom community from my first post because…you’re here. Or maybe you already know that you need...
View Cart-1.png?width=30&name=MicrosoftTeams-image%20(7)-1.png){kind=small}
