A lesson designed to empower high school students with the tools to navigate digital misinformation, focusing on the SIFT method, identifying emotional bias, and spotting sponsored content.

A comprehensive exemplar analysis essay of John Green's 'Turtles All the Way Down' focusing on text structure, literary devices, and character dynamics. Includes a targeted guide to academic transition words for 10th-grade writers.

Explore the complex, self-serving relationships in Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby. Students analyze characters through the lens of social transactions and complete a creative response on character motivations and the 'cost' of their social deals.

This lesson breaks down the 5-point STAAR English I Argumentative ECR rubric using 'The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant' as a central text. Students analyze graded examples and practice scoring a new essay to master the criteria for evidence, organization, and conventions.

A focused study of Chapter 3 of Julia Alvarez's 'In the Time of the Butterflies', focusing on Maria Teresa's loss of innocence and her first glimpses into the political reality of Trujillo's Dominican Republic.

A creative final project for Shakespeare's Macbeth that requires students to synthesize textual evidence with visual art. Students choose a central theme or character arc to illustrate, supporting their artistic choices with cited quotes from the play.