Focusing on narrative voice and internal monologue to support the creation of authentic character journal entries.
A comprehensive 3-hour project lesson for EB/Newcomer students to demonstrate mastery of inferencing, character foils, and informational text structures. Students analyze a real-world unsung hero, design a fictional character foil, and write a scaffolded mini-argument.
A sophisticated rhetoric lesson for high school students exploring the art of the speech introduction. Students analyze and construct powerful hooks, establish credibility, and build structured previews to captivate their audience.
A high school literature and creative writing lesson focused on advanced point of view, narrative distance, perspective shifts, and unreliable narrators. Includes reference guides, analytical toolkits, and practice prompts.
A literature lesson examining how different characters experience and narrate the exact same central event. Students analyze three contrasting accounts of a mysterious clocktower ringing to explore the impact of perspective on narrative truth, tone, and character motivation.
A rigorous, standards-aligned lesson focused on teaching students how ideas, events, and concepts interact in complex informational texts using four major organizational structures.
An analytical ELA lesson exploring the social psychology concepts of deindividuation, anonymity, and diffused responsibility in literature. Students examine how characters lose their individuality in groups, using classic literary texts to map the psychology of the mob.
A highly cumulative practice-heavy reading intervention lesson consolidating long VCC exceptions, final y as vowel /ī/ and /ē/, and consonant-le stable ending syllables.
An intensive high school reading intervention lesson introducing the multiple sounds and roles of the letter y (consonant /y/, vowel /ī/, /ē/, and short /ĭ/ in closed syllables) with explicit modeling.
A high-impact STAAR preparation lesson focused on identifying main ideas, thesis statements, and supporting evidence in informational texts. Students analyze visual prompts, examine mentor texts, and apply scaffolded writing strategies to construct evidence-based responses.
