Avoid "The Ravine" of Bad Lesson Plans

When Mr. Vinny and three others new teachers dropped down into Mr. Ravine’s classroom, they entered a jungle thick with tangled ungraded papers and rumors of what might have happened to the dead teacher’s body. The paper trail was slick and, in places where it had fallen away, flat-out dangerous. In the midst of the paper pile, Mr. Vinny found what he had been looking for: A Character Analysis Lesson Plan for “The Ravine” by Graham Salisbury.