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Lesson 5
It's time for another Socratic Seminar! But this time, two different Men's Health magazine covers (with the same cover model!) will be discussed, analyzed, debated, and more. Lesson Starter (5 minutes)...
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Lesson 7
This is a fast lesson and one that requires an ability to shift between many different magazine covers. In all, there will be 8 magazine covers analyzed today. This lesson is designed as a "jigsaw." ...
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Lesson 1
In this first lesson, the goal is to get students to understand what is going to happen over the next 10 lessons. You will introduce and discuss the guiding questions. You will (briefly) introduce the...
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Lesson 3
Lesson 3 uses the same Men's Health magazine cover from Lesson 2. In this lesson, the focus is on close language and image analysis. After a lesson starter, there will be a mini-lesson (short lecture)...
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Lesson 2
The bulk of lesson 2 focuses on discussing a single Men's Health magazine cover. Most of the lesson will be spent talking, discussing, and analyzing the magazine cover in the form of a Socratic Seminar (as...
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Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (vi) Finding Global Issues Free
This week, we have published our 6th page in our Word of Mouth podcast series. It’s a non-literary body of work that is tremendously relevant to a course called Language and Literature. To date (writing...
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Men's Health Magazine Covers (body of work) Free
As always, we are adding to our non-literary bodies of work on the site. You can find a curated page of those non-literary bodies of work here. We have also published, in conjunction with some of them,...
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Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (v) Coinages Free
What is the OED’s 2023 word of the year? What do etymologists do and what are the challenges of doing etymology? What is podcast chemistry and how can you recognise it? You know that language changes,...
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Text-Type Debates (Masculinity) Free
This week, we are continuing to post resources about the representation of masculinity. Two weeks ago, we published a page that begins this discussion – found here. This week, we have set up debates...
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Text-Type Debates (Masculinity)
On this page, you will find a total of three different debates, with an optional fourth debate, all centering on masculinity in some way. The debates are set up to have students argue about different...