A comprehensive review lesson for 'I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' featuring a high-stakes classroom game to prep for assessments. Students will categorize plot points, analyze character motivations, and identify key themes and symbols.

This lesson teaches students to distinguish between compound sentences that require a comma before a coordinating conjunction and simple sentences with compound parts that do not.

A mid-unit checkpoint focused on the 'The Real You' Blast and independent reading accountability. Students explore themes of identity and authenticity while engaging in peer review for their personal narrative drafts.

A lesson focusing on TEKS 6.6(B) written response skills through the analysis of the moral dilemma in 'The Good Samaritan'. Students practice crafting well-supported responses that connect character choices to central themes.

A lesson focused on developing effective summarization skills through the story 'Good Samaritan'. Students learn to distinguish between objective and subjective details while using the 'Somebody Wanted But So Then' (SWBST) method to capture the narrative arc.

A cumulative review and final assessment of all figurative language types covered during the week-long investigation.

Students decode the strange and quirky world of idioms, learning to interpret figurative meanings rather than literal definitions.

A focus on the auditory elements of figurative language, investigating how onomatopoeia and alliteration create 'sound-waves' in poetry and prose.

Students experiment with personification and hyperbole to add dramatic flair and personality to their writing, testing the limits of exaggeration.

Students explore the building blocks of comparison by investigating similes and metaphors, learning to identify the differences and create their own scientific 'comparisons.'