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Building engagement for your upcoming novel study is a crucially important but daunting task. Creating classroom “buzz” about the new book you are about to read helps to build anticipation…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 10, 2024 Every time I go on social media, I am bombarded by talk of the teacher retention issues going on in our world right now (don’t…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 If you are “on the hunt” (did you see what I did there?) for a super engaging and culturally iconic short story for your middle…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 21, 2024 All About Mythical Allusions Mythical Allusions can be a tricky (but important!) topic to teach. Put simply, mythical allusions are terms that “allude” to characters…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 9, 2024 Teaching Freak the Mighty Teacher friends who have been following me on the blog for a while know how passionate I am about the powerful…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated March 21, 2024 In beautiful BC, Canada, we are about a month away from returning to our classrooms. I am not sure about you, but to me this…