If you teach British Romanticism to your high school students, you should work William Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads into your prep. Jay and Paul dig through the Preface and talk about its importance to teaching the Romantic Movement. Jay opens with a pitch perfect poem, Seamus Heaney's "Digging", a Wordsworthian poem if there ever was one. #EdChat, #Humanities, #TeacherLife, #HighSchoolTeacher, #edutwitter #teachertalkwithpaulandjay #english #englishteacher #classics #classicalliterature #pedagogy #highschoolenglish #literature

In this episode of "Paul Talks" from "Teacher talk with Paul & Jay", Paul lays out the bones of every humanities classroom: its rhetoric and dialectic all the way down. In practical terms, that means reading, writing and dialectic. Every day for every thing. #highschoolenglishteacher #classical #classicaleducation #homeschool #literature #pedagogy

If you are going to teach the Romantics, you should start with William Blake. Blake is the the first of the Romantic poets, the most outlandish and through and through Romantic in all aspects of his work. Paul suggests starting students with his astounding art; Jay begins with an immersive outdoor reading exercise. Whichever way you choose, you'll get good ideas and lots of inspiration for Blake from this episode.