A sophisticated rhetoric lesson for high school students exploring the art of the speech introduction. Students analyze and construct powerful hooks, establish credibility, and build structured previews to captivate their audience.

A high school literature and creative writing lesson focused on advanced point of view, narrative distance, perspective shifts, and unreliable narrators. Includes reference guides, analytical toolkits, and practice prompts.

A literature lesson examining how different characters experience and narrate the exact same central event. Students analyze three contrasting accounts of a mysterious clocktower ringing to explore the impact of perspective on narrative truth, tone, and character motivation.

A rigorous, standards-aligned lesson focused on teaching students how ideas, events, and concepts interact in complex informational texts using four major organizational structures.

An analytical ELA lesson exploring the social psychology concepts of deindividuation, anonymity, and diffused responsibility in literature. Students examine how characters lose their individuality in groups, using classic literary texts to map the psychology of the mob.

A highly cumulative practice-heavy reading intervention lesson consolidating long VCC exceptions, final y as vowel /ī/ and /ē/, and consonant-le stable ending syllables.

An intensive high school reading intervention lesson introducing the multiple sounds and roles of the letter y (consonant /y/, vowel /ī/, /ē/, and short /ĭ/ in closed syllables) with explicit modeling.

A high-impact STAAR preparation lesson focused on identifying main ideas, thesis statements, and supporting evidence in informational texts. Students analyze visual prompts, examine mentor texts, and apply scaffolded writing strategies to construct evidence-based responses.

A comprehensive practice-heavy reading intervention lesson applying final y vowel rules in connected text, combined with a mixed review of silent-e and long-VCC exceptions.

An intensive high school reading intervention lesson introducing final y as a long /ē/ vowel in two-syllable words, compared and contrasted with final y as a long /ī/ vowel in single-syllable words.

A practice-heavy high school reading intervention lesson applying final y as a long /ī/ vowel in one-syllable words, combined with consonant-le multisyllabic review.

An intensive high school reading intervention lesson introducing final y as a long /ī/ vowel in one-syllable words, spiraling previous long VCC exceptions.

A practice-heavy high school reading intervention lesson applying long VCC vowel patterns in connected text, combined with multisyllabic decoding of consonant-le endings.

An intensive high school reading intervention lesson introducing long VCC vowel patterns (-ild, -ind, -old, -olt, -ost) as exceptions to standard closed syllable rules. It features scaffolded practice and explicit direct instruction.

A comprehensive end-of-unit poetry analysis assessment consisting of text-dependent questions, a short-answer section on a fresh poem, and an analytical writing prompt with a standardized grading rubric.

Students explore how historical era, biography, and cultural context shape a poem's themes and resonance. Includes instructional slides and an analytical guided notes organizer examining diverse voices in poetry.

Students analyze how word choice (diction) establishes atmosphere (mood) and speaker attitude (tone), tracking the pivotal shifts where meaning transforms. Includes slides and a tracker-style close reading worksheet.

Students examine how line breaks, stanzas, rhyme schemes, and meter control pacing and highlight critical concepts. Includes instructional slides and a guided practice analyzing classic sonnet and free verse forms.

Students explore how poets use metaphors, similes, and rich sensory imagery to craft layers of meaning beyond the literal words. Includes instructional slides and a close reading guided worksheet analyzing Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Focuses on the entire novel. Culminates in a thematic synthesis, drafting, revising, and presenting evidence-based literary analysis essays centered on the novel's core values: kindness, friendship, and identity.

Focuses on Part 8 (August). Analyzes the resolution of primary conflicts, structural shifts, and the return to August's perspective. Students study character transformation, narrative closure, and prep for thematic synthesis.

Focuses on Parts 6 & 7 (August's medical updates & Miranda). Examines motivations of secondary characters, the impact of secret keeping, and the concept of subjective reality versus absolute truth as friendships drift and realign.

Focuses on Parts 4 & 5 (Jack & Justin). Explores typography as voice, socio-economic factors in peer pressure, and the courage required to stand up to social norms. Students compare Jack's cognitive dissonance with Justin's experimental stream-of-consciousness writing.

Focuses on Parts 2 & 3 (Via & Summer). Introduces the concept of shifting narration and contrasting viewpoints. Students examine how familial obligations, grief, and genuine friendship shape how other characters see August and how they see themselves.

Focuses on Part 1 (August). Introduces the concept of first-person narration, character voice, and narrative reliability. Students analyze how August establishes his identity and how his perspective guides our initial understanding of Beecher Prep.

An explicit, highly scaffolded writing lesson focused on subject-predicate identification, fragment correction, and color-coded visual sentence expansion. Designed with age-respectful visual aids and structured executive functioning checklists for older students in substantially separate settings.

A comprehensive game design lesson focusing on creative writing and narrative architecture. Students learn how to build worlds, draft compelling character arcs, and design branching choice pathways through a series of structured worksheets, guided slides, and educator resources.