A highly scaffolded, visual lesson covering Book 9 of The Odyssey (the Cyclops). Focuses on character roles, sequencing Odysseus's escape plan, and cause-and-effect vocabulary for WIDA Level 1-2 ELL students.
A reading comprehension and vocabulary lesson based on the final chapter of Treasure Island.
A deep-dive reading analysis of chapters 31-36 of the novel 'Knead', exploring student comprehension and character inference.
A highly visual assessment lesson for 9th-grade WIDA Level 1-2 ELL students covering Book 11 of The Odyssey (the Underworld). Features simplified language, scaffolded graphic organizers, and character matching.
An introductory lesson bundle for Jerry Spinelli's novel Stargirl, focusing on the author's background, desert setting of Mica, Arizona, key characters, and contextual vocabulary for Chapters 1 and 2.
An intensive ESL lesson focused on Memorial Day history, academic vocabulary acquisition, and proofreading skills such as verb tense consistency, capitalization, homophones, and sentence structure.
A lesson containing a 5-day student bell ringer packet and a teacher guide with detailed answer keys and Google Apps Script code to build corresponding Google Forms.
A scaffolded introductory lesson on identifying unreliable narrators in gothic literature. Students read a custom suspenseful practice story and complete targeted skill-building activities before diving into Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
A high-interest persuasive writing lesson where students analyze the impact of technology on society, select a stance on topics like social media limits or video game benefits, and construct a structured persuasive argument.
A comprehensive English Language Arts lesson where students plan and design a graphic memoir panel or comic strip capturing a significant milestone. Designed to support Special Education students via multimodal expression while challenging high school students with concise dialogue and visual symbolism.
A vocabulary review lesson utilizing a thematic Choice Board Matrix, focusing on critical thinking, collaborative partner speaking, reading comprehension, visual sketching, and creative writing.
An assessment package for Jason Reynolds' novel Long Way Down, tailored for developmental reading students. Includes a highly visual study guide and a matching 50-point adapted test.
An immersive, hands-on lesson exploring six major types of figurative language through structured station activities, a collaborative workshop, mentor poetry analysis, and an interactive slideshow. Students learn to identify, analyze, and craft similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
An interactive, digital, agent-themed SAT vocabulary Jeopardy game designed for student Chromebooks. Students decode 14 high-frequency SAT terms across categories like 'Masterminds & Trickery', 'Tangible Structures', and 'Rules & Mindsets'.
A foundational lesson containing frameworks and evaluative tools to support rigorous, evidence-based collaborative debate. It focuses on elevating academic argument quality, critical thinking, and respectful civil dialogue across different subjects and grade levels.
A high-energy, retro-arcade themed Jeopardy game designed for high school students to review key literary devices. This lesson includes an interactive slide presentation, a detailed teacher host guide with complete answer explanations, and a student scorecard for active participation and reasoning tracking.
An ELA lesson analyzing character perspectives, family sacrifice, and empathy in the pivotal chapter 'The Visit' from Wendelin Van Draanen's novel Flipped. Students explore basic comprehension and deep perspective shifts through rigorous multiple-choice and text-evidence short answers.
A high-stakes digital safety escape room focused on identifying online scams, recognizing manipulative dark patterns, and protecting personal data. Recruits analyze active verb voices, linking verbs, ellipses punctuation, and deceptive tones to decode the final alert.
An advanced media literacy and communication escape room for Ages 13-15. Recruits distinguish facts from opinions, analyze objective realities, sort personal attitudes, and input the override PROOF to secure the school news mainframe.
A collaborative social-emotional escape room focused on identifying relational and social bullying, supporting target peers, and standing up to cyber/verbal exclusion. Recruits analyze verb verbal types, pronoun cases, intransitive verbs, and compound syntax to decode the final override.
An immersive and strategic escape room focused on managing academic stress, avoiding burnout, and planning study habits. Recruits analyze student logs under performance anxiety, build efficient schedules, and decode the override to restore positive motivation.
A cooperative and empathetic escape room focused on managing family duties and household balance. Recruits analyze parent/child perspective claims, organize daily chores timelines, and decode the final compromise override.
An advanced digital literacy and collaborative cryptography escape room for Ages 14-16. Recruits analyze verb transitivity, relative clauses, subjunctive moods, and tone to stop a school database wipe.
A high-stakes moral dilemma escape room for Ages 11-13. Recruits evaluate the trade-offs of academic honesty, identify plagiarism, analyze persuasive appeals, and decode the final ethics code.