The Joys of Teaching Literature: Recent Episodes
Teacher's Workshop
Teaching literature in high school is about connecting the past, the present, and the future with the imagination. The study of literature can be fun, relevant, and meaningful for all students if we focus on inspiring creative and curious thinkers and writers. This podcast will deal with new technologies, consciousness, identity, love, classroom culture, omniscient narration, rhythm, and all the other topics related to teaching English. Visit www.theteachersworkshop.com to find more resources for secondary ELA (English language arts) teachers. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scott-cameron6/support
Your students will love studying Serial, Season 1 with Sarah Koenig because it's real and relevant.
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Give your students options when assigning a podcast. I'll review some techniques that will make creating a podcast easy.
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There are a lot of things to consider when asking students to close read a passage in a novel. Learn some fun activities I do to make it manageable.
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Here are six activities to keep on your desk to mix things up when interpreting a novel with your students.
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There are all kinds of things English teachers can do to prevent the use of AI, but the most important is to provide verbal feedback while they write.
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Instead of unit and thematic-based units with essential questions, you could try media and genre-based units where students study and then create podcasts, poetry, video essays, short fiction, and personal essays.
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I used two modern short stories to open up conversations about violence, technology, gossip, and surveillance. Students posted links to make connections to two different short stories.
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Preparing to write an essay means finding as many quotes as possible to help answer a question, but it can be a fun activity with these five activities.
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Bring a new energy to your class with a year-long project that will inspire all of your students and get every hand up in the air. Students deserve a chance to express their thoughts about the world without the pressure of academic analysis. My new online course just opened and you can find it at Teacher's Workshop.
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ELA teachers have a ton of work including grading essays, class notes, reading notes, and quizzes, not to mention lesson planning, emails, and meetings. Let's think about how to handle it all.
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Students love to talk about how a character grows and changes because they also experience a lot of change in high school.
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It seems like it's getting harder and harder to get students to speak in front of the entire class. Learn some strategies to make it easier for kids to share their thoughts.
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Instead of listing literary techniques, students should focus on determining their purpose and function. I reduce it to three main purposes to make it easy.
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Start the year with a personal narrative and your students will understand what makes a great story. Or maybe it will help them get into college.
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Start this school year by having more fun and experiencing less stress. I have three main techniques to get you on your way.
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All of your students may not be as obsessed with novels as you are. Free Literacy Blocks will rope in the kids who want to talk about modern topics.
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End the year with a creative podcast project instead of a traditional essay.
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Students want to find meaning in literature, and they can do it with the three P's of relevance: the personal, the political, and the philosophical.
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Learn how to close read film like you close read a poem. Your students will love it and it's an important life skill.
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Mini conferences gives your students time to research and write and get verbal feedback as they plan their next steps. Hear about my latest writing assignment.
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Teachable moments should be part of our daily approach to teaching fiction, but what are they and how can we talk about them?
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Novels don't have the same visual pizzaz as social media, so we have to find ways to convince students why they should read. I'll go over five ways to introduce novels that should make the idea of reading for such a long time a lot less scary.
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Film adaptations are a great way to get students to imagine how a story could unfold in today's world. I'll describe an assignment I give with Dubliners, by James Joyce.
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It's easy to keep students focused if they have guide that will lead them to a complete comprehension of the topic. In this episode, I'll describe how I ask my students to take notes in class.
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Students wake up when they read a story about technology and the media. They have plenty to say about how the media presents reality and in this episode, I'll talk about a small assignment I gave to get those conversations going.
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The epic battle of man vs. machine goes on and this time, it's the ELA teacher against AI. Listen to my thoughts on what we can do about the robot that writes stuff.
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While it might be difficult to inspire students to love great novels, it's easier to ask them to think and write about things that are personally meaningful. I'll go over different activities and projects that help make learning more personal for students.
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Dr. Reed started Walkabouts, an educational technology that teaches students while they exercise. This is an interview that should raise the eyebrow of any teacher looking for a new way to transform their classroom.
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There are so many reasons to get stressed out at work, so here are a few ways to avoid burnout.
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Working outside school with students in sports and activities can be very rewarding but also demanding.
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Creative writing allows students to be free of all the rules and rubrics and now with modern technology, there are many ways students can express their view of the world.
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Help your students master the complex skill of close reading with these five easy steps.
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Teachers provide many opportunities for students to prepare for an essay or exam. We must map out the process so it's not a mystery.
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Teaching literary techniques can be difficult, and intimidating to students, but there's a way to make it fun and easy.
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There are many websites that feature poetry film and poets reading their poems in front of a live audience. Students are more likely to get interested in poetry if they can see and hear it.
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The biggest challenge ELA teachers face year to year is how to get to students to not only read the novels we assign, but to love reading them. Here are some tips to inspire students to love reading.
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Starting the year strong is easy with a few straightforward, yet challenging poems.
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What makes a great novel? What makes it great to teach? What boxes should it check to make it into the curriculum?
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It's easy to get upset about plagiarism and cheating, and hard to find a way to reduce the desire to gain an unfair advantage. I'll go over seven methods to discourage cheating in your class.
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Little distractions can add up to a lot of wasted classroom time. Here are five little routines that will help you maximize learning time and eliminate time spent on stressful paperwork stuff.
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Free literacy blocks allow students to explore a topic or question of choice on a weekly basis for a set amount of time. It's all about freedom, choice, and curiosity.
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Students love the creative process behind everything, not just literature. Bringing the worlds of sports, science, visual art, and technology together with the world of literature can lead to exciting conversations.
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How does it feel to graduate? What have you learned? What is hope? I complete the final assignment I give my seniors at the end of the year, and this is the short audio of my video essay for The Hope Project.
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Fiction exists outside the world of history and at the same time, often gives a more accurate account of reality than textbooks. When we discuss a novel, when is it appropriate to bring in a discussion of culture and history?
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It's nice to start fresh in the fall. Here are five small things you can do that will help you truly love teaching.
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Interpreting the meaning of a frame or shot in a movie is just like interpreting a metaphor or symbol. This week, I'll talk about how I pair film and literature.
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It can be really fun to let students go online and choose their own adventure. An open-ended conversation about anything and everything will inspire students to solve the world's problems. Sometimes, it's good to let students educate themselves.
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Writing a research paper doesn't need to be a stressful experience. I'll go over the eight things I do in class to guide my students through the writing process.
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This year, I'll do something I call "The Hope Project". It gives my students the opportunity to make sense of the year and look forward.
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If we walk into our class excited and ready to go, our students will too. I'll go over some things I've learned about how to be positive.
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Teaching topic by topic instead of chapter by chapter makes life easier on you and your students. Whole-novel activities allow students to track the development of a topic through the entire story.
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When students learn about race and culture, they learn about everything. I'll talk about teaching an elective called Racial Literacy and go over four easy ways to talk about race in your ELA classroom.
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My students worked in groups to create a short film in just one week. I'll take you through ten tips to help your students avoid common mistakes.
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We should reflect on what works best in our classrooms more than once a year. This week, I'll talk about how both students and teachers should reflect on how to grow and change habits on a regular basis.
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Short stories are a great way to introduce the various narrators students might encounter in novels. I'll talk about free indirect discourse, first person narration, internal monologue and all that good stuff.
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It's fiction, it's not real, but it is relevant. I'll describe a writing assignment that forces students to think about how fiction connects to the world we live in.
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There are so many great teachers that share their creative ideas online, and this is one of the best ways teachers can improve and find new ways to inspire students. Visit my blog to find links to all the blogs and websites.
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The conclusion can be a game changer for our students who need a good reason to write. The conclusion is what an education is all about, so let's rethink how we talk about the conclusion.
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My units on novels move from the large, external world of the character to the small, internal one (and then back again).
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Wouldn't it be nice if students could get just as excited to come to our classroom as they did for the big game? Or if we had the same attitude toward mistakes, building skills, and teamwork? This week, I'll elaborate on the metaphor, learning is a sport.
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The first time I saw a rubric, I thought, yikes! That doesn't look like a whole lot of fun. So let's think about how we can simplify rubrics so they are easy to understand and useful.
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We learned to juggle education websites last year, so now it's time to get back to pencil and paper and think about how students stay engaged in real life. I'll go over the seven simple ways students learn.
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Lately, I've been trying to make things more exciting than usual to get my students excited about literature. I'll go over five easy ways to inspire and motivate your young scholars.
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Interpreting poems about poetry can get students excited about a challenging literary form. These six poems should help them use their imagination and embrace their confusion.
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Does that syllable get a stress?! Prosody doesn't have to be hard, and it actually helps students appreciate the playfulness of poetry. This week, I'll go over how I teach prosody and rhythm.
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Be scared, be very scared. I'm talking about the thesis statement, the be all end all of the essay. Or is it?
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It's fun to assign a personal narrative to start the year. I'll talk about the ways that I try to inspire my students to write in their everyday storytelling voices.
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Start the school year with a revolution! I'll talk about the first conversation I have with my students about the functions of language and all the reasons to love reading fiction.
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There are a few simple, easy things we can do to establish great relationships in our classrooms, which is the key to keep students engaged and excited to learn.
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It's way easier to teach Shakespeare by showing a film clip after your students read the text and do a close reading of a passage. I'll talk about the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet from PBS Great Performances and how it helps students better understand the emotions of the characters. Visit pbslearningmedia.org and search for "Romeo and Juliet" to view the clip.
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No, not that kind of drama. Performance. This week, I'll talk about how you can get all your students into performing, not just the theater kids.
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A few people suggested that I teach Beloved by Toni Morrison, so I gave it a shot last year. I'll talk about the book and some of the questions Morrison wants us to consider.
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Students love to read fiction so they can understand another world in another time, but they also read to understand the world they live in right now. In this episode, Elizabeth and B.H. James will talk about writing A Sea of Troubles: Pairing Literary and Informational Texts to Address Social Inequality.
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It's important and also easy to talk about race and culture in school. In this episode, I'll talk about racial literacy.
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Displaying student work not only adds to the literary culture of our classrooms and schools, but it builds confidence so students feel confident to share their ideas. I'll talk about my experience advising my school's student-run art gallery and all the ways I display student work.
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An organized classroom makes life easier for everyone. I'll talk about how to plan organized units, set only a few due dates, and keep track of student writing.
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Last year, we adjusted and still managed to offer a quality education to our students. But now, let's look at the ways we can make teaching easy, exciting and excellent.
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Every year, I complete my final assignment, a video essay where students reflect on graduating, what they've learned, and the future. This year, we focused on the topic of love, so I called the project "The Love and Stories Project". This is the audio for the video essay.
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It’s hard to imagine that anything positive will come out of this year, but I’ve been thinking about what, if any, lessons I’ve learned from teaching hybrid. In this episode, I'll reflect on what worked and what didn't.
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Give your students an assignment to end the year that will be fun and meaningful. In this episode, I'll describe how I end the year in my class.
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There's a big difference between writing a story and telling a story out loud. This episode is all about real life stories and their literary value.
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LGBTQ+ literature fits right in with everything English teachers do, including the the exploration of topics like identity and love. In this episode, I'll talk about poetry, To the Lighthouse, and Giovanni's Room.
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Conversations outside of class can be a great way to bring new perspectives into the classroom. In this episode, I'll talk about how we can ask our students to talk about literature with someone in the real world.
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For many students, this is a hard year to keep up with work. Here are seven things I've been doing to make it possible for all students to finish this year strong.
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In this episode, I'll tell stories about the past year. It's the audio recording for a video essay I created for my students.
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In this episode, I'll talk about all kinds of storytelling and how it can transform our world and ourselves.
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In this episode, I'll talk about fun projects that will create memorable moments and keep students engaged through the spring.
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In this episode, I'll talk about an activity that will get students outside and thinking and talking about the past year.
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In this episode, I'll talk about eleven different topics that will help students see the relevance of literature.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why professional development should be job-embedded, or related to the daily challenges of teachers in a specific content area.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how excited students get about magical realism, and how they love getting the opportunity to create it for themselves.
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In this episode, I'll talk about when someone asked me why I wanted to be a teacher in a job interview a long time ago, and I'll update my response.
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In this episode, I'll talk about very short fiction, microfiction, sudden fiction, or whatever you want to call very short prose, and how it's perfect for remote or hybrid teaching.
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In this episode, I'll talk about screencasts and how they can be an alternative to a traditional essay.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the place for media literacy in an English language arts class. I describe a small group project that will get students to think about how they consume a single news story.
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In this episode, I talk about what makes a superteacher, even though it's almost impossible to be one right now.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I plan to restructure my novel units for virtual learning. I'll also describe my topical approach to teaching the novel.
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In this episode, I'll talk about ten creative projects that will keep students engaged during hybrid or remote learning.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the things ELA teachers can do to facilitate a good conversation about politics.
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In this episode, I'll go through 50 songs that you could play to start class.
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In this episode, I'll talk about all the different ways we give feedback, and I'm not just talking about written feedback.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how we can get our students to set and achieve their own goals.
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In this episode, I talk about how students should be able to write about literature from the past, and also write for and in the present.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I assigned sketchnotes at the end of my poetry unit.
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In this episode, I'll talk about reading poetry out loud and my six favorite poems to read in class. I'll read "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the five best tech tools for small group work I used after teaching hybrid for a week.
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In this episode, I'll talk about homework. How much homework should we give? What kind of homework should we give? Does homework hurt some students more than it helps others?
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In this episode, I'll talk about 5 goals for remote or hybrid learning. It's not easy, so let's create a list of things to remember as we navigate these new waters.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the start of school (virtual school) and introducing students to the value of literature and fiction.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I introduce literature with an activity I call symbolism show and tell.
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In this episode, I'll describe my new project I'm calling the "Love + Stories Project". I'll also read some quotes related to love from the literature I teach.
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In this episode, I'll talk about my five rules of thumb for teaching during a pandemic.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the connection between language and power.
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In this episode, I'll give advice on how to interview for a position as an English teacher or ELA teacher. I'll tell stories about my experiences and talk a little about how taking my online course (for English teachers) might help you get a job.
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In this episode, I'll talk about teaching my seniors how to write a college application essay.
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In this episode, I'll read twenty incredible and inspiring quotes from my seniors. They come from a final video essay assignment for something I called "The Creativity Project".
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In this episode, I'll talk about the thing that has helped me grow the most as a teacher - the end of year course evaluation.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the basics of online learning and some of the more advanced tools available to teachers.
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In this episode, I'll talk about inequality in education and ways we can quickly close the achievement gap.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the value of fiction, metaphors, and imagination.
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In this episode, I'll describe how I introduce the complex question of free will to my students.
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In this episode, I'll talk about immersion, the end goal of all art and living.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how creativity comes from having unexpected conversations.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why high school students love studying Shakespeare's Hamlet year after year.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how to bring literature off the page and into the ears and hearts of our students.
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In this episode, I'll talk about symbolism - how to teach it in literature, but also how it can be a way of looking at the world.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why I started Teacher's Workshop.
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In this episode, I'll talk about a few short stories that explore how technology can influence our perception.
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In this episode, I'll talk about job-embedded professional development for teachers.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the similarities between the television show The Bachelor, on ABC, and the novel Emma, by Jane Austen.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the art of asking great questions.
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In this episode, I'll describe my topic-based approach to teaching the novel. I'll also talk about how I assign reading.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why I love Virginia Woolf. I'll read some passages from the novel To the Lighthouse.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how to connect the worlds of literature and technology in meaningful ways for high school students.
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In this episode, I'll describe how I use literature to talk about race relations in high school.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the different components of my writing program for high school students.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how literature functions as a metaphorical map of real places.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I try to pretend that grades don't exist in my classroom.
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In this episode, I'll explore how the psyche is a part of every work of fiction, and how I talk about it in class.
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In this episode, I'll talk about assignments where students demonstrate their understanding of literature through creative writing, film adaptations, or podcasts, instead of the traditional essay.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I introduce my students to the complex art of poetry.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the structure of the essay and how to get students to not feel trapped by rules.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the literary value of podcasts and how to use them in the classroom.
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In this episode, I'll talk about the similarities between popular music and poetry. I'll also describe an assignment I gave where students could talk about their favorite song of all time.
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In this episode, I'll deal with an English teacher's least favorite task ... grading essays! How can we make it a meaningful and stress free process?
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In this episode, I'll briefly describe a project for my seniors I call "The Creativity Project".
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In this episode, I talk about what short stories can teach us about perspective and reality.
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In this episode, I'll describe three rules of thumb I follow to create a positive culture in my classroom.
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This is the audio for a video essay I created for my seniors. Every year, I ask them to talk about how it feels to graduate and to answer a few other questions. I complete the assignment myself, so this is my reflection on this school year.
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In this episode, I'll talk about all the reasons students might not read and describe how I assign reading.
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If there's one thing that virtual teaching has taught me, it's that less is more.
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In this episode, I'll talk about why it's important for students to encounter new sources or ideas without plugging a term into a search bar.
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In this episode, I'll talk about how I try to simplify teaching complex literature in my classroom.
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