An exploration of cinematic techniques such as lighting, sound, and camera angles, focusing on how these elements enhance or alter thematic messages from written source material.
A targeted intervention designed to help 10th-grade students move beyond plot summary and into deep literary analysis for their weekly book club journals. This lesson provides clear frameworks for paragraph construction and analytical thinking.
A fairytale folklore project that explores the original dark roots of classic tales and analyzes their subversion and intersection in Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods'.
A comprehensive project-based lesson where students research the classic literary origins of the characters in 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' before watching the film to compare adaptations and explore literary idioms.
A comprehensive 5-day lesson guiding students through the process of writing a personal essay about their multiple intelligences, skills, and future career paths.
A high-energy, detective-themed lesson exploring how gerunds function as nouns while maintaining their verb-like properties. Designed for advanced students to master identification and usage in various sentence roles.
A deep dive into morphology and common word endings (-able, -ible, -ary, -ery, -ory, -ant, -ent), focusing on how Latin roots and base words determine spelling patterns.
A comprehensive introduction to Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming, covering subjects, verbs, direct objects, and prepositional phrases through a structural engineering lens.
A lesson focused on teaching WIDA level 3 students how to construct strong topic sentences using a two-part formula: the topic and the clear idea. Students will use graphic organizers and sentence starters to build academic paragraph foundations.