Why You Need a Cardboard Box for Black History Month

If you’ve never heard one of your students attempt a southern drawl you must give Box Brown’s Freedom Crate a … More

Important Events in American History

February is Black History Month. While I encourage you to acknowledge it with some dedicated activities, I’m also reminded that … More

Saki’s “The Open Window”

Having reacquired my publishing rights to collection of my plays, I’ve just repackaged “The Open Window” and made it available … More

“Don’t Bother Teaching the Facts”

I recently attended a workshop in which the keynote speaker pointed out that in this current age of information, teaching … More

Have a Dickens of a Christmas!

We all know that last week before Christmas vacation can be a real bugger in the classroom. The kids get … More

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Originally published by Scholastic, here’s another of my classroom plays getting new life on TeachersPayTeachers! Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling’s classic short … More

There’s Still Time for Some Halloween Monstrosities!

It’s not too late to stage a Halloween drama fest. Here are half-a-dozen plays that will allow your students to … More

Just in Time for Halloween!

Having recently reclaimed my publishing rights from Scholastic for a bank of my classic short story plays, I’m very pleased … More

Pip & the Prisoner

When most people think about Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, they land on Miss Havisham and her creepy old mansion … More

How to Celebrate the Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

I was seven years old when the Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the moon in mid-July of 1969. I … More