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Welcome to Lesson Plans Revisited!
I’m Amerah Pioquinto. I’m a secondary English Language Arts teacher at a very small town in the DFW area of Texas. I have been married to my quirky and supportive husband, Giovanny, for 4 years and we have a beautiful, energetic 6 month old baby girl, Isla, and two dogs, Milo and Django. As for qualifications, I am currently in my second year of teaching. I teach Honors English I, English III, Literary Genres, and Creative Writing. I know I still have so much to learn about this profession and that it will forever be a learning process. So what’s the purpose of this blog? Let me be completely honest…
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Change of Plans
How do I keep students engaged when reading a novel? That’s a tremendous task for any teacher, but especially a brand new high school teacher. Last year at the beginning of the spring semester in my first year teaching English III, we started reading My Antonia by Willa Cather. Started. I had never read the novel before (a huge error on my part), but I thought I could make it fun and educational on the fly anyway. Fast forward to the first day of reading. I had established the background information on the author and time period in a way that I thought was interesting, so I assumed we would…
