Practical, Research-Based Books That Transform How Teens Write and Think
A High School English Teacher’s Guide To Writing Memoir
A High School English Teacher’s Guide to Writing Memoir is more than a set of writing lessons—it’s a call to see your students, and help them see themselves, through the power of story.
With more than forty flexible lessons and a robust suite of downloadable charts, tools, mentor texts, and AI recommendations, this guide helps you teach memoir as courageous storytelling and self-discovery. Students will write honestly, revise bravely, and publish in formats that matter to them—from anthologies to picture books to multimodal memoirs.
Grounded in research and practical classroom strategies, this guidebook walks teachers through each stage of memoir writing—from generating story ideas and experimenting with structure to revising with intention and experimenting with conventions. Along the way, it centers mentor text inquiry, writing partnerships, and author’s craft. It also embraces new technologies, including AI, as part of the writing process, so your students will emerge confident and adept as digital writers.
Whether your students are excavating memories, wrestling with identity, or discovering their voice for the first time, this guide helps them transform raw moments into powerful memoirs.
And for you—the teacher—it brings a new kind of classroom intimacy, a deepened community, and the reminder that storytelling is the heart of being known. Let memoir become a source of meaning, connection, and growth for every writer in your room.
A High School English Teacher’s Guide To Writing Literary Analysis
A High School English Teacher’s Guide to Writing Literary Analysis is more than a curriculum resource—it’s an invitation. With over fifty flexible lessons and a treasure trove of tools, charts, mentor texts, and AI recommendations, this guide invites teachers to reimagine literary analysis as something intimate, authentic, intellectual, and joyful.
Grounded in research in university courses and high school classrooms, this guide dives deeply into literary analysis, inviting students to learn the art of lingering in texts, seeing more, and developing expressive language to articulate their thinking. Because reading is at the heart of literary analysis writing, half of these lessons lead students back into texts to develop interpretations. The other half of the lessons teach students the craft of writing about texts with insight and voice.
Along the way, this guidebook also offers ways to coach students toward…
Developing original, evidence-based interpretations
Crafting nuanced, meaningful theses
Organizing and elevating their evidence and reasoning
Strengthening commentary and sharpening analysis
Refining structure, style, and conventions with intention
Using AI across the analytical and writing process to deepen thinking and sharpen writing
In a time when student engagement and authentic thinking matter more than ever, A High School English Teacher’s Guide to Writing Literary Analysis equips educators with the tools to make literary interpretation both rigorous and relevant. Drawing on real classrooms and fresh scholarship, this book honors student voice, celebrates interpretation, and dares to break the boundaries of the five-paragraph essay. Whether your students are writing about novels, podcasts, or other media, these lessons will help them deepen their thinking, express their ideas, and write about texts with real purpose—for real audiences. With this guide in hand, teachers can foster classrooms where analysis becomes not a formula to follow, but a powerful means of selfexpression and discovery.
