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At Teacher Comp, our goal is to help you find resources to teach whatever text you’re working with without having to go through all of Google’s hundreds of thousands (or more!) hits for everything you search.

Most pages have six sections:

  1. General details and connections to IB Literature/Language & Literature Areas of Exploration and Conceptual Understandings.

  2. Full text, basic summaries, and overviews: if there’s a full text or excerpts online, we’ve posted them. We’ve also linked audiobooks and pages/videos that give overviews of the text as a whole, like SparkNotes or CourseHero’s resources.

  3. About the author: biographies, interviews, and if available, the author’s official website.

  4. Articles, essays, and videos that connect to the text. This section varies with each text, but we aim to post a mixture of articles about the text (it’s reception, its adaptations or translations), scholarly essays about the text, and videos (TedTalks, reviews, movie clips if the text has a film adaptation).

  5. Lesson plans and other teaching resources. Everything we link here is ready to go: read the lesson plan, print necessary materials, and teach. Our goal is to find lessons that can be used right away or even as sub plans.

  6. Shopping List. We don’t want you wading through options on Amazon, either. We’ve posted direct links to purchase resources on Amazon. Some are resources we’ve used and loved, others are resources that are mentioned in the essays, articles, and videos linked on the page. It’s a good idea to read Amazon reviews before you decide if a product is a worthwhile purchase for you.

  • For now, yes! We will likely move to a subscription model in the future or offer additional purchasable resources, but for now everything is free to use.

    Our revenue currently comes from affiliate links and advertisements.

  • Teacher websites are the best websites! If you have resources you think teachers will love, send us an email so we can check it out! If we have room on the page and think teachers will benefit from using it, we’ll add it to our links.

    Unless the resources are free, we are not posting links to Teachers Pay Teachers at this time.

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  • New pages are added every week. Our current goal is to maintain a sense of balance in our offerings in terms of author gender, country of origin, and text type (dramas, novels, poetry).

    After that, we aim to add texts that are high interest (for students and teachers!) and that either have so many resources online that it’s hard to sort through them all (like To Pimp a Butterfly) or that don’t have many good teacher/classroom resources (like Midaq Alley) and take some scrounging to find.

    We are happy to take requests. A link to our suggestion form is on the homepage.

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