English Teacher Fun Box
A carefully curated collection of resources that promise to surprise, delight, and engage.
What’s In This Month’s English Teacher Fun Box?
English Teacher Fun Box is a carefully curated collection of timely lessons and resources, designed to engage your students based on what's relevant and trending during any given month. You’ll have everything you need to make teaching exciting, impactful, and deeply connected to the world your students live in.
- Teach Complex Concepts (Like Thesis Statements) With March Madness — There’s a BETTER way to use tournament-style brackets to teach complex concepts and to achieve deeper learning. Try this once, and you'll be using it all year.
- Teach Argument With St. Patrick’s Day — This is a fun one! Students will receive a rainbow passport that corresponds to six different color-coded stations throughout the room, each one somehow connected to St. Patrick’s Day and Irish heritage. The surprise at the end of the rainbow? You guessed it. An awesome synthesis essay!
- Teach Argument With Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” — Post Malone’s hit song, “I Had Some Help,” has been at the top of the charts for months. This bundle includes a guided close reading and opportunities for synthesis with similar arguments (e.g. “Before He Cheats”).
- Teach Argument With Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” — This month, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” seems to be playing on every station, all of the time. Throughout the song, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga pay homage to the famous duets of the 1970s, but with a modern twist. This bundle asks students to unpack the language in this popular text, and to synthesize it with comparable popular arguments that inspired its development.
- Teach Argument and Rhetorical Prowess With Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" -- This is the FIRST lesson bundle that's included in the April English Teacher Fun Box, but we just dropped it into the March Fun Box so you can get your hands on it in time for April 1st. (What better way to celebrate April Fool's than with Swift's satirical infamous satirical essay? And maybe with a touch of modern satire from The Onion brought into the mix?)
What Was In Last Month’s English Teacher Fun Box?
English Teacher Fun Box is a carefully curated collection of timely lessons and resources, designed to engage your students based on what's relevant and trending during any given month. You’ll have everything you need to make teaching exciting, impactful, and deeply connected to the world your students live in.
- Teach Argument With Valentine’s Day Rhetoric — Celebrate Valentine’s Day all week with your students by closely reading, unpacking, and analyzing the rhetoric of Valentine’s Day gifts. This bundle includes two major parts — the first is a close reading activity that asks students to carefully consider the “message” associated with different flower arrangements that might be gifted on Valentine’s Day, along with the rest of the rhetorical situation that likely accompanies each nuanced arrangement. The second activity asks students to extend their consideration of “messages” by analyzing Conversation Hearts — perfect as a Quiz-Quiz-Trade activity that gets students moving around, working in pairs, and unpacking language!
- Teach Argument With Super Bowl Commercials — What better way to teach close reading and rhetorical analysis than with Super Bowl commercials? Access the full 2025 bundle, which uses some of the most compelling Super Bowl commercials we’ve seen, to bring this to life with your classes immediately!
- Teach Argument With President Trump’s Second Inaugural Address — Access a comprehensive line-by-line analytical activity that prompts students to unpack the language of President Trump’s 1/20/25 inaugural address, with a laser-focus on language, close reading, and rhetorical analysis.
- Teach Argument with 2024 Super Bowl Commercials — In preparation for analyzing this rhetoric and compelling arguments that will surely be baked into this year’s Super Bowl commercials.
- Teach Argument with 2023 Super Bowl Commercials — An extended repertoire of recent Super Bowl commercials to analyze and consider alongside each other.
- Teach Argument with Love Letters — Close reading, rhetorical analysis, and comparative analysis of some of the most famous love letters in history… especially relevant with Valentine’s Day just around the corner!
- Hopes & Dreams, Tropes & Schemes — A speed-dating style game that’s designed to foster students’ understanding of complex rhetorical devices in an engaging manner… A fun lesson year round, but especially fitting for Valentine’s Day.
- Teach Argument with Taylor Swift’s Hit Song “Lover” — This English Teacher Fun Box would be incomplete without at least one popular love song to closely read, analyze, and unpack with students… and Taylor Swift’s hit song “Lover” lends itself wonderfully to this purpose!
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