This blog post features my journal entries from the middle of my 4th year of teaching (January 2009-March 2009).

This blog post features my journal entries my 4th year of teaching.

Journal entries from my 3rd year of teaching. Things turn around and I start to realize that maybe teaching is for me.

This is a free mini personal narrative unit.

This blog post features journals from my 2nd year of teaching.

Excerpts from the first year of my teaching journal.

This is the final post in my Poet X free unit series. This post provides daily lessons for Part 3 of The Poet X.

This is a free unit for Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X. This blog focuses on Part 2 of the book.

Free resources to start teaching The Poet X. Free unit for The Poet X. Free handouts for The Poet X. Reading Survey.

These are my day-by-day lessons plans for the month of October for my AP Lang & Comp class.

This blog has free resources for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. There are close reading passages, activities and reading quizzes.

Day by day AP Lang & Comp plans for mid-September to early October.

These are my daily plans for AP Lang & Comp. I plan on posting them as the year goes so you can see them in close-to-real time.

This is a free unit for Yummy that I used with with my high school reading classes.

This is a free unit for the novel Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson. It is geared towards special education students in 11th grade.

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Free resources for Jason Reynold's Look Both Ways. Includes vocabulary activities as well as graphic organizers, PowerPoints and more.

A few media analysis materials.

Free materials to discuss gun control. AP Lang and Comp. Includes text suggestions and a newsletter assignment .

This blog has a lot of helpful and free resources for 1984: Pre-reading activities, vocabulary, analysis handouts, satire handouts,