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 Argument With The Comprehensive "Introducing Argument" Lesson Series — If you're looking for the best way to introduce argument, close reading, rhetorical devices, and synthesis to your students this school year, THIS IS IT! This comprehensive resource includes a four-pack of introductory lessons designed to ease students into some of the most complex and rigorous skills in ELA, in the fun and accessible manner that TeachArgument is known for. (Disney examples abound!!)
- Teach Argument With Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club" — Chappell Roan’s "Pink Pony Club" is a wildly popular anthem that's just begging to be closely read, analyzed, and deconstructed in our classes. The song offers a layered argument that explores of identity, freedom, and belonging, and this comprehensive lesson bundle invites students to engage in close reading and rhetorical analysis of Roan's vibrant lyrics and narrative voice. Students will unpack the argument embedded in the song’s celebration of self-expression and individuality, while also synthesizing it with broader popular texts that touch upon similar themes.
- Teach Argument With Teddy Swims' "Lose Control" — Teddy Swims' "Lose Control" has dominated the music charts for years, likely because of the compelling manner in which the speaker captures the raw intensity of love, vulnerability, and emotional surrender. Best of all, the song provides fertile ground for an engaging rhetorical analysis, offering students the chance examine how the speaker builds his case for the necessity (and danger) of losing oneself in love through close reading, rhetorical analysis, and synthesis.
- Teach Argument With Morgan Wallen's "I'm the Problem" — Morgan Wallen’s "I’m The Problem" offers a strikingly self-reflective narrative about personal flaws, accountability, and struggle. Students will analyze how Wallen crafts an argument that is a bit different than what they might be used to, as the speaker using rhetorical strategies to shift blame from himself to his partner ("If I'm the problem, you might be the reason"). This bundle is packed with exercises for close reading, rhetorical analysis, synthesis, and more.
- Teach Argument With Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" — Shaboozey’s "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" offers an argument that is dressed up as a fun party anthem, but that ultimately opens up into a deeper exploration of how people seek connection and reprieve. Students will analyze the rhetorical moves within the song, evaluate the strength argument, and synthesize their insights across other related texts. This lesson promises to be a hit, whether you're focusing on close reading, rhetoric, comparative analysis, or synthesis.
- Teach Argument With Benson Boon's "Beautiful Things" — Benson Boon’s "Beautiful Things" is one of the most popular songs of the last year, likely because it profoundly resonates with themes of gratitude, fear of loss, and the importance of cherishing fleeting moments. This lesson bundle helps students to unpack how Boon builds an argument through a comprehensive guided analysis, activities for unpacking the larger argument, and exercises that extend their analysis of Boon's argument across other texts.
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