Essential Literary Elements for Better Storytelling: 5 Other Elements
If you establish these other 5 elements along with the other three, you’re on a roll for a well-crafted story for others to enjoy for years.
Better Storytelling: Conflict Obstacles
A story has to have the substance that reflects life. It’s more than having a bunch of events happen; those events have to have a conflict to drive it.
What’s the Difference Between Theme & Motif?
I get it–it’s easier. But, that doesn’t mean it should be done. It kills me when my high school freshmen mix up motifs and themes. Thinking they’re interchangeable, it makes it almost impossible to get them to understand how very different they are. It’s frustrating for me. Motifs are everywhere in life; we need to […]
Videos & Lessons for High School Studies
Reviewing all of the video creators below, I found that these would be the most engaging, helpful, and appropriate for 9-12th graders.
Building Community in Your Secondary Classes
The difference between finding a place to live and finding a home is the community around it. It’s so important to find others with the same lifestyle as you. Yet, as they get older, we teach students to drift from place to place without a second thought. They drift from class to class, school to […]