Now that Super Bowl LVII has come and gone, we enter the period of post-game analysis. The players and coaches are watching footage to see which kicks, throws, and tackles were the most or least successful. This is all well and good if you’re interested in getting better at football; however, the only kind of … Read more
A few weeks back, I celebrated MLK Day with a comic to honor the venerated activist and leader Martin Luther King Jr. To continue in this vein, and in honor of Black History Month, I’m sharing a few of my favorite resources for teaching MLK’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. (Get the full transcript … Read more
Every English teacher’s been there: It’s Friday, you’ve got too much to grade, and you could really use a day of quiet to plow through the papers. You think to yourself, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just show a movie?” When I was teaching high school English full time, I had many, many … Read more
The joy of being an English teacher AND a speech teacher is that no matter what I’m teaching, I get to talk about rhetoric! I’m not kidding—I love the days when I get to introduce Aristotle’s “means of persuasion.” This is because ethos (ee-thos), pathos (pay-thos), and logos (low-gos) are all around us all the … Read more