A focused look at Chapter 2 of 'In the Time of the Butterflies', exploring the girls' education at Inmaculada Concepción and Minerva's awakening to the reality of Trujillo's dictatorship through her friendship with Sinita.

A comprehensive strategic plan for the English Department focusing on Tier 1-3 instructional priorities, STAAR preparation, and progress monitoring.

Students learn the art of informational reporting by creating a detailed entry for the 'Oddity Almanac,' focusing on research, engaging structure, and visual presentation.

A comprehensive 10-day revising and editing practice sequence focused on English 1 TEKS, featuring career and technology-themed passages and questions mirroring the Texas EOC exam.

A focused extension lesson on paragraph organization and the strategic use of transition words to improve flow and clarity in informational writing. Students will unscramble a chaotic paragraph and use a 'toolkit' of transitions to rebuild it logically.

Focus on Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics with a mixed review of revision and editing skills.

Focus on Public Service and Law with editing questions targeting fragments and run-on sentences.

Focus on Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications with revision questions targeting adding or removing sentences for focus.

Focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with editing questions targeting pronoun-antecedent agreement.

Focus on Hospitality and Tourism with revision questions targeting organization and sentence placement.

Focus on Architecture and Construction with editing questions targeting spelling and possessive nouns.

Focus on Information Technology with revision questions targeting sentence combining and clarity.

Focus on Business, Marketing, and Finance with editing questions targeting subject-verb agreement and verb tense.

Focus on Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources with revision questions targeting sentence transitions and word choice.

Focus on Health Science careers with editing questions targeting capitalization and punctuation. Includes the master student tracker for the 10-day sequence.

Students demonstrate their ability to identify and formulate strong claims and select relevant evidence to support those claims in various contexts.

A specialized support lesson for students reading 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, focusing on memory retrieval, chronological tracking, and visual mapping of key events.

A focused lesson on analyzing Stage 3 of 'St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves'. Students examine the Stage 3 epigraph's claim about 'biculturalism' and use textual evidence to determine if the characters are actually meeting these expectations during the Debutante Ball.