Category: English and Language Arts

  • A Vision Arrived Too Late: Reading James Canton’s Future Smart in 2025

    Book: Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World by James Canton Publisher: Da Capo Press (2015) Audience: High School (Advanced) to College Level Recommended for: AP Human Geography, Economics, English Language Arts, Technology and Society electives Rating 3.75 of 5 Stars Why This Book Matters (and Why Timing Matters More) There…

  • From Page to Screen: Teaching Suspense Through Tolkien and Shelley

    Using books like LOTR and Frankenstein to evaluate screenwriting process and teach suspense is a great activity for October.

  • ACE: September and October Update

    Adobe Creative Educators uses monthly challenges to try new activities in Adobe Express each month please enjoy my take on the September and October challenges for fall 2025. #AdobeEduCreative

  • 420 Years of Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” revolutionized the novel form, explored the human condition, offered social commentary, and inspired various adaptations across art forms.

  • America

    Walt Whitman 1819 –1892 Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,Chair’d in the adamant of Time.

  • From Mysticism to Resistance: How Andor Reframes the Star Wars Rebellion

    The post argues for a pedagogical shift to viewing Andor Season 2, Rogue One, and A New Hope as a trilogy, emphasizing material resistance and moral complexities of rebellion against authoritarianism.