Students learn the art of informational reporting by creating a detailed entry for the 'Oddity Almanac,' focusing on research, engaging structure, and visual presentation.

A focused extension lesson on paragraph organization and the strategic use of transition words to improve flow and clarity in informational writing. Students will unscramble a chaotic paragraph and use a 'toolkit' of transitions to rebuild it logically.

A specialized support lesson for students reading 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, focusing on memory retrieval, chronological tracking, and visual mapping of key events.

A collection of tools and activities designed to help students transition from basic ideas to structured academic writing using sentence starters and organizational frames.

A series of poetry bellwork activities for 7th graders focusing on rhyme scheme, meter, and thematic quick writes. Includes a student handout, presentation slides for daily prompts, and a teacher's answer key.

A lesson focused on identifying and analyzing why characters make the choices they do in literature. Students explore the concept of motivation through evidence-based reasoning and personal interpretation.

A creative writing focus where students analyze film themes and use structured prompts to develop their own animated story concepts.

Students compare the distinct visual styles of different animation studios and practice informative paragraph writing by analyzing production techniques.

Focuses on the fundamentals of character design and development, using iconic examples from Blue Sky and Warner Bros. to teach students how to build descriptive character profiles.

A comprehensive lesson that uses architectural metaphors to teach students how to construct complex sentences using subordinate clauses and logical connectors. Students move from 'foundation' simple sentences to 'multi-story' complex structures.

A comprehensive lesson exploring the human brain's capabilities and the nature of intelligence, featuring an informational text analysis and a multiple intelligences choice board.

This lesson teaches students to analyze how news reports introduce, illustrate, and elaborate on key individuals, events, or ideas using specific examples and anecdotes.

A lesson focused on analyzing how specific parts of a text contribute to the overall structure and the development of an argument through evidence. Students learn to see texts as 'blueprints' where every sentence serves a structural purpose.

An introductory exploration into the world of propaganda, teaching students to identify bias and persuasive techniques in historical and modern media.

A follow-up lesson focused on mastering literary analysis through the ANEZZ paragraph structure, using Khalil Gibran's 'Children' to explore figurative language and theme.

A comprehensive lesson for 7th graders on subtext and the 'show, don't tell' technique. Students learn to analyze what is left unsaid in narratives and apply these techniques to their own creative writing project.

A focused workshop for mastering Short Constructed Responses (SCR), featuring five evidence-rich passages that target theme, purpose, diction, and synthesis skills.