I Hate This Book! English Teacher Training

The 5-day training, the templates, and the planning tools that turn any required text into a unit students can't stop talking about (in class, not in the ChatGPT search bar).

You don't need another engagement strategy from a district PD slide.

You need a system you can run on any book, this unit and every unit after it, without rebuilding your lesson plans from scratch every single time.

😎That's what this is.

Each day is a training (about an hour) plus a template built to teach that exact strategy with any text you throw at it: this year's required reading, the dusty one in the back of the book closet that you pretend to run out of time to teach, the one your department chair just added without asking you...

• Training 1: The Hook - How to make students care before page 1 and want to open the book
• Training 2: The Pair - How to pair informational text with literature so it doesn't feel like a punishment (anddd it secretly preps them for literary analysis essays!)
• Training 3: The Write-Up - How to create a discussion to academic writing pipeline (AKA how to AI proof writing in HS English)
• Training 4: The Theme Machine How to connect the chaos and get students building their own original themes for any text (that they can defend and write about!)
• Training 5: The System How to turn all four days into a repeatable weekly process you run on every unit, all year, not just the one you built during the challenge

Bonus 1: My personal list of informational texts students actually want to read. The exact sources I go to first...you know, the ones that don't read like they were written for a textbook. No more pairing The Crucible with a dry Britannica.com entry on the Salem trials and calling it "engagement.

Bonus 2: The planning tool I built after the workbook was already done 👀. A tool for mapping this whole system onto your actual, real, already-too-full curriculum calendar. It didn't make it into the original challenge workbook because I built it in response to what teachers asked for! Now it's yours from day one.

Bonus 3: 3 done-for-you 5-day plans on the books that teachers in the past challenge chose as their top 3 *offenders*: Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, and Lord of the Flies! See the system in-action with 3 different texts with 5 days of lessons that you can implement TOMORROW!