Focuses on roots related to life (bio), death (mort), origin (gen), joining (junct), following (sec/sect), and law (jud, leg).

Covers Latin roots related to life and death, connection, law, and books. Includes roots like gen, mort, bio, ven, junct, spir, sec, jud, leg, mod, and biblio.

A vocabulary lesson for 6th-grade students focused on building word mastery through architectural-themed activities. Includes matching, sentence completion, and creative writing.

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.

Covers Greek and Latin roots related to quantity (magni, min, poly), the body (cap, corp, dent, ped), and the elements (terr, astr, hydra).

Focuses on Latin roots related to hands (man), writing (scrib), belief (cred), and making (fac), as well as leading (duct), following (sequ), and turning (vert).

Focuses on Latin roots related to speech (dic), hearing (aud), sight (vis), movement (gress, mot), and pulling/breaking (tract, rupt).

A mini-lesson on journalism leads that teaches students how to use delayed (anecdotal) leads to bridge personal stories with universal claims about social media's impact on teen mental health.

Explores Greek and Latin roots and prefixes related to size, communication, and visual representation.

Focuses on number prefixes from Greek and Latin sources, including uni-, bi-, tri-, quad-, and cent-.

Focuses on vowel and consonant alternations where sounds shift between long, short, and schwa when suffixes are added.

Focuses on action suffixes (-ize, -ify, -en) and the transition to complex word endings like -ion, -ation, and consonant alternations.

An in-depth analysis of the 1963 film 'Charade' through the lenses of Hitchcockian tropes, gender performance, and the aesthetics of post-war consumerism.

Focuses on common negative and directional prefixes like un-, in-, dis-, mis-, pre-, and post-.

A focused analysis of Act III of The Crucible, exploring the intense courtroom drama through characterization, foils, and authorial tone with heavy linguistic support for English learners.

An ELL Level 1 focused investigation into the reliability of Nick Carraway and the truthfulness of Jay Gatsby's backstory in Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby. This lesson uses a graphic organizer and sentence frames to scaffold literary analysis for beginning English learners.

A scaffolded analysis of Jay Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy Buchanan for ELL Level 1 students, focusing on the distinction between romance and obsession through graphic organizers and sentence frames.