Teaching The Echo
Just another way I'm giving out lesson plans
In addition to the lesson plans that I write about in this blog and put on Teacher's Pay Teachers, I've found another way to make extra unpaid work for myself! (We teachers are really, really good at that.)
For every piece published by The Echo: Teen Art & Lit Mag, I create lesson plans in a series that I call: Teach the Echo! Because, you know, it's really cool to show students what people their own age are writing and publishing. Publication is a form of cultural conversation and one way that we can create authentic writing opportunities for our students is to have them engage in those conversations. Much of what I do through Teach the Echo! is create lesson plans where students engage with a contemporary text from one of their peers and write in response to that text.
The latest can be found here. In it, I provide lesson plans for a poem inspired by Patroclus, though it's unclear if the teen author is responding to The Iliad or Song of Achilles. It's a cool poem and I hope I created cool lesson plans to match.