A comprehensive one-week media literacy unit for 10th grade focusing on identifying AI-generated content, deepfakes, and synthetic media. Includes teacher-facing lesson plans, a multi-page student workbook, and an interactive slide presentation.
A reading comprehension and vocabulary lesson based on the final chapter of Treasure Island.
A 10th-grade English language arts lesson blending procedural text structures with deep metaphorical thinking, where students write figurative recipes detailing the internal traits and external supports that help literary characters overcome adversity.
A deep-dive reading analysis of chapters 31-36 of the novel 'Knead', exploring student comprehension and character inference.
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.
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-impact lesson centered on deciphering technical, connotative, and figurative language in an urban-themed literary narrative, aligned to CCRS standard WME 401.
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.
A high-stakes perspective-taking escape room. Recruits examine conflicting first-person accounts, analyze bias, reconstruct a unified timeline, and solve the override code.
An ethical decision-making and systems-thinking escape room. Recruits analyze resource allocation options, vote on complex tradeoffs, map cascading social consequences, and draft an argumentative consensus brief to restore balance.
An online misinformation and fact-checking escape room for Ages 10-12. Recruits sort fact vs. opinion, trace original message sources, and reconstruct truth timelines to stop rumors.
A chronological reconstruction and peer exclusion escape room for Ages 10-12. Recruits analyze sticky-note observations, identify missed social interactions, and role-play restorative de-escalation scripts.
An observation-based escape mission for Ages 8-10. Recruits decode paw ciphers, match footprint evidence to classroom hiding spots, and compile a team map to find the missing class pet.
A cooperative social escape room for Ages 8-10 focused on inclusion and empathy. Recruits sort desk messages, build a timeline, and decode perspective cards to support a lonely classmate.
A comprehensive revision unit designed to help students elevate their comparative analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Disney's The Lion King. It includes structured graphic organizers, comparative writing frames, and a visually engaging editing checklist.
A complete 5-day review program featuring a 125-question Jeopardy-style game designed to prepare students for the World Literature Final Exam. It covers five core novels, reading comprehension skills, grammar, vocabulary, transitions, and test-taking strategies.
A high-interest reading comprehension lesson exploring bioethics, genetic engineering, and consequences through the sci-fi thriller, 'The Monster of Blackstone City'.
A comprehensive English 1 diagnostic and remediation toolkit containing a 30-question diagnostic assessment and an extensive teacher answer key with remediation guides. This lesson targets core deficiencies in Reading Comprehension, Grammar/Mechanics, and Main Idea identification.
A comprehensive set of 6-minute daily warm-ups and corresponding closure questions spanning 11 crucial chapters of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis'.
A comprehensive lesson exploring Chapter 9 ('Not a Person') of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis', focusing on medical dehumanization, social stigma, and the historical and modern experiences of TB patients.
A rigorous high school lesson focused on identifying and interpreting idioms, sarcasm, and non-literal language in complex texts. Includes a classified-dossier style student practice worksheet and a comprehensive teacher answer key.
A dynamic lesson where students research the history of their favorite snack and craft a persuasive pitch to 'sell' its greatness. Includes a research organizer, writing prompt, and presentation template.
A comprehensive lesson designed to help Grade 9-12 students master public speaking techniques through structured practice, peer feedback, and discussion of common challenges.
A scaffolded reading guide and educational materials for Chapter 10: 'Being Black' from Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers. Students examine racial identity, double consciousness, vocabulary in context, and Walter's internal conflicts regarding expectations vs. dreams.
An accommodated, highly-scaffolded study guide and lesson resources focused on the 'Dr. Holiday' chapter of Walter Dean Myers' memoir, Bad Boy. Students explore character traits, comparison of adult figures, vocabulary, and cause-and-effect relationships surrounding Walter's behavior.
An introductory role-play and scenario-based ELA lesson exploring the modern real-world parallels of Macbeth's core themes—ambition, betrayal, manipulation, and guilt—with differentiated scaffolds for moderate and heavy support needs.
An intensive analytical lesson focusing on Shakespeare's Macbeth, exploring the psychological decay of characters and the thematic significance of motif transformations across all five acts.
This lesson scaffolds the Text Analysis Response (Part 3) of the NYS ELA Regents using Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" from the August 2025 exam, providing bilingual paragraph frames and vocabulary supports for transitioning ELL students.
A comprehensive grammar lesson designed to help students master commas and apostrophes through structured style guides, model exercises, and active text-editing tasks.
A reading comprehension unit about the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops (the "Ghost Army") of World War II, focusing on analyzing key details in historical texts.
A comprehensive high school ESL lesson focusing on the inspiring life of Louis Lee, a Chinese American aviation photographer during WWII. Students build reading comprehension, acquire history-themed vocabulary, and practice targeted proofreading skills including capitalization, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement.
Students develop a shared vocabulary of terms related to modern global citizenship through a collaborative project where they define complex social concepts in their own words.