The Daring English Teacher

The Complete Essay Writing Unit for Middle & High School ELA! Teach students how to confidently write organized, analytical essays with this comprehensive Essay Writing Unit. Designed specifically for middle school ELA, high school English, and secondary writing classrooms, this complete writing curriculum walks students through every stage of the essay writing process using explicit instruction, scaffolded practice, mentor examples, graphic organizers, writing checklists, and engaging classroom

Back to school activities for big kids! Engage your new students from day one with these 11 back to school activities and ice breakers that are ideal for the first day and first week of school! This Back to School Activities resource is ideal for middle and high school students, and it is filled with beginning of the year ice breakers and activities to beat the first day jitters! You and your students will get to know each other and start the school year on the right foot with these beginning-o

Make teaching sentence structure fun, engaging, and hands-on! This sentence structure resource is a complete teaching unit with materials for direct instruction, student practice, and assessment.⭐️ This unit includes both the print and the digital resources!In this unit, students will learn about the four types of sentence structure: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences. You'll see an immediate improvement in your students' grammar!Here's what y

One of the best ways to help students succeed both in and out of a school setting is by teaching this email etiquette unit. By teaching students how to write an email, they will know how to write an email to a teacher, boss, or superior. Email etiquette is an essential skill that students need to know, and after teaching this email etiquette unit, you’ll receive much more pleasant emails. You and your students will love these email etiquette activities in this unit!Now includes DIGITAL RESOUR

End of the year activities! Keep your students engaged during the last week of school with these no-prep end of year ELA activities for middle school and high school. This resource is perfect for the last day of school, after testing activities, early finishers, or when students are checked out, but you still want meaningful learning.Best for:End of year ELA activities middle schoolHigh school end of year English lessonsLast week of school activitiesLast day of school activitiesAfter testing act

Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ This Ethos, Pathos, Logos resource also includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instruct

Create and embrace a growth mindset in your secondary classroom with these engaging growth mindset and SEL classroom resources and activities. These growth mindset activities were created especially for middle school and high school students, and they can be used all year long to reinforce a growth mindset in the classroom. Introduce your students to a growth mindset with the growth mindset student survey and reflection activity. From there, have your students complete an assortment of the incl

Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically! In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quotin

Get a full year's worth of parts of speech instruction, activities, worksheets, practice, and assessments with this parts of speech unit! These ready-to-use parts of speech worksheets and teaching units include include both print and digital formats. Do your school students struggle with identifying the parts of speech? This Parts of Speech Teaching Unit includes eight engaging parts of speech units specifically designed for secondary students that will help your students master the parts of spe

Help your students master the art of argumentative writing with this argument writing teaching unit! I created this argumentative essay writing teaching unit with secondary ELA students in mind, and it includes step-by-step and engaging writing instructional materials. This argument essay writing unit includes everything you need for a complete argumentative writing instructional unit, including the print & digital materials. This essay writing instructional unit includes an editable instructi

Make teaching journalism and advising the school newspaper a breeze with this journalism curriculum! This journalism curriculum has everything you need to get your journalism students started on the right foot and working on a successful newspaper -whether you publish in print or digitally! From learning basic journalism terminology to news writing to the inverted pyramid to AP Style writing, this journalism unit has everything you need to get your student journalists writing and publishing hi

Teach your students all about short stories and literary elements with a short story unit that works with any piece of fiction. This short story teaching lesson introduces students to short stories, fiction, and literary devices. It includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about short stories, and you can use these organizers over and over again.  This short story unit includes both the print and digital files! Teaching short stories is a breeze with this unit.

Engage your students in an exciting and comprehensive narrative writing unit with this teaching narrative writing resource! This narrative writing unit includes materials for both a personal narrative writing and a fictional narrative writing and includes everything you need to teach narrative writing to your middle and high school students. Including both the print and digital files!Walk your students step-by-step through the writing process with the materials in this unit. From brainstorming

This Lord of the Flies novel study unit includes everything teachers need to teach William Golding’s classic novel. This Lord of the Flies unit provides engaging activities, comprehension questions, quizzes, and assessments designed for middle school and high school students. Engage your students in a hands-on, in-depth, and exciting Lord of the Flies novel study! This Lord of the Flies novel study includes reading and analysis activities, vocabulary, writing prompts, graphic organizers, and

Help your students learn how to annotate nonfiction text with this step-by-step text annotation unit! This annotating text resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to effectively annotate and closely read informational text. Includes print and digital formats!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotat

Teach your students how to properly embed, cite, and explain quotes in their writing with this comprehensive teaching lesson! Students will learn four different ways to embed quotes in their writing. This lesson includes ample activities for practice, and students can apply the skill all year long. Includes print and digital resources!From an extensive editable instructional presentation to multiple worksheets to help students practice the skill to invaluable student references, this embedding

Teach your students all about proper artificial intelligence (AI) use and academic integrity with this multi-day unit! Have you struggled with students using AI in the classroom to generate entire essays and other portions of their classwork? Have your students struggled to understand why using AI to complete their assignments might not be entirely academically ethical? Are you at your wit’s end, feeling like you are fighting a never-ending battle against AI use, academic dishonesty, and blatant

Make literary analysis more engaging, meaningful, and accessible with this hands-on Literary Analysis Sticky Note Unit. Designed for middle school ELA and high school English classrooms, this resource helps students move beyond simple plot summaries and develop stronger literary analysis skills through close reading, evidence collection, critical thinking, and writing.Instead of asking students to jump directly into a literary analysis paragraph or essay, this resource scaffolds the process step

Back to School Stations! Get to know your new students with this engaging first day of school activity! This back to school stations activity is perfect for the first week of school, and it will help you and your students get to know one another for the new school year. This first day of school activity is the PERFECT WAY to start the school year! These back to school stations help you establish a positive and cooperative classroom tone from day 1! Plus, the PDF is open so you can edit the stat

Annotating Text, Annotating Fiction, Annotating Poetry: Teach your students how to efficiently annotate any kid of text with these step-by-step, guided, text annotation lessons and class exercises! Now includes print and digital options!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate a piece of text together using guided instructions and step-by-step