A comprehensive lesson exploring the Savvas mentor text 'What Makes Someone Extraordinary'. Students will analyze character traits, identify supporting evidence, and define what it means to be truly exceptional.
A comprehensive lesson teaching students to identify media bias in newspaper articles using specific techniques like headline framing, sensationalism, and omission. Students take on the role of 'Headline Hackers' to critique and edit biased news.
A vocabulary lesson for 6th-grade students focused on building word mastery through architectural-themed activities. Includes matching, sentence completion, and creative writing.
A foundational grammar lesson introducing simple, compound, and complex sentence structures through a construction-themed lens. Students learn to build and identify sentences using independent and dependent clauses.
A Grade 7 ELA lesson focused on mastering the Arkansas ATLAS assessment through analyzing claims, comparing arguments, and evaluating narrative craft. Students will engage with paired informational texts and a narrative excerpt to practice evidence-based reasoning.
A Grade 8 ELA test prep lesson aligned to Arkansas ATLAS standards, focusing on argument analysis and multi-source synthesis regarding fare-free public transportation.
A comprehensive test prep lesson focused on Arkansas ATLAS ELA standards for Grade 6, including central idea analysis, argument structure, and evidence-based writing.
A comprehensive guide to mastering evidence-based writing and constructed responses for the Arkansas ATLAS assessment, focusing on the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework.
Students analyze character conflicts by curating a 'soundtrack' of songs that mirror internal and external struggles, justifying their selections with textual evidence and lyrical analysis.
This lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting character responses to conflict in literature using 'Frosted Fire' and 'Sara Sees Red'. Students will analyze character development and gather evidence to support a literary analysis essay.
A beginner-level introduction to Book 3 of The Odyssey, focusing on Telemachus's arrival in Pylos and his meeting with King Nestor, designed specifically for Level 1.5 ESL learners.
A 15-minute intensive reteach focused on identifying journalism with delayed ledes, building on the text 'Planes on the Brain'. Students learn to distinguish between narrative hooks and the informational core of news articles.
An introduction to 'Flowers for Algernon' and the essential question of human intelligence, covering the entire short story through journal-based summarization and conflict analysis.