This lesson explores how poets use words with multiple meanings (polysemy) to create depth, irony, and ambiguity in their writing. Students will act as 'poetry sleuths' to uncover hidden layers in various verses.
A comprehensive set of reading comprehension check-in quizzes for five popular middle-grade novels. Each novel features two specialized quizzes—one focusing on initial character introductions and the other on major plot resolutions.
A highly supportive, adapted literature study of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery.' This lesson contains a simplified, guided text with margin prompts, interactive slide deck, heavy vocabulary scaffolding cards, leveled task cards, a structured assessment, and a comprehensive teacher guide.
An interactive slide deck featuring visual supports, structured prompt slides, and scaffolded discussion questions for teaching 'The Lottery'.
A spy-themed 4-day parts of speech review sequence for 6th and 7th graders. Students become secret agents in the 'Syntax Syndicate', cracking codes and completing missions to master nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, culminating in a collaborative classroom escape room.
A reading and analysis lesson for the first two chapters of 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick. Students explore character traits, narrative point of view, physical settings, and make initial plot predictions.
An accommodated, high-contrast, structured comprehension assessment featuring vocabulary matching, simplified multiple-choice questions, and scaffolded sentence frames.
A comprehensive literary research unit designed to guide students through a structural and character analysis of classic and regional fairy tales. Students assume the role of folklore investigators, tracking standard tropes, character motivations, helper archetypes, and plot designs, culminating in an analytical presentation.
A welcoming, high-energy introductory lesson for English Term 2. Students reflect on their holiday experiences, practice active listening and speaking in a collaborative environment, and set personalized, actionable SMART goals for the new term.
A five-lesson literary analysis and SAT prep sequence based on Rob Buyea's 'Because of Mr. Terupt'. Students practice textual evidence analysis and vocabulary-in-context skills through character-driven writing prompts.
