Students learn how to take the admissions gained in CX and quote them in their rebuttal speeches. This turns CX from a separate event into a source of evidence, connecting questioning directly to the clash of the debate.
An assessment package for Jason Reynolds' novel Long Way Down, tailored for developmental reading students. Includes a highly visual study guide and a matching 50-point adapted test.
An immersive, hands-on lesson exploring six major types of figurative language through structured station activities, a collaborative workshop, mentor poetry analysis, and an interactive slideshow. Students learn to identify, analyze, and craft similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.
An interactive, digital, agent-themed SAT vocabulary Jeopardy game designed for student Chromebooks. Students decode 14 high-frequency SAT terms across categories like 'Masterminds & Trickery', 'Tangible Structures', and 'Rules & Mindsets'.
A foundational lesson containing frameworks and evaluative tools to support rigorous, evidence-based collaborative debate. It focuses on elevating academic argument quality, critical thinking, and respectful civil dialogue across different subjects and grade levels.
A high-energy, retro-arcade themed Jeopardy game designed for high school students to review key literary devices. This lesson includes an interactive slide presentation, a detailed teacher host guide with complete answer explanations, and a student scorecard for active participation and reasoning tracking.
A comprehensive revision unit designed to help students elevate their comparative analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Disney's The Lion King. It includes structured graphic organizers, comparative writing frames, and a visually engaging editing checklist.
An advanced social media copywriting lesson for Grades 11-12. Students learn the science of scroll-stopping hooks, high-impact body copy, strategic calls-to-action (CTAs), and hashtag mechanics, concluding with a real-world caption-writing workbook activity.
A complete 5-day review program featuring a 125-question Jeopardy-style game designed to prepare students for the World Literature Final Exam. It covers five core novels, reading comprehension skills, grammar, vocabulary, transitions, and test-taking strategies.
A high-interest reading comprehension lesson exploring bioethics, genetic engineering, and consequences through the sci-fi thriller, 'The Monster of Blackstone City'.
A comprehensive set of 6-minute daily warm-ups and corresponding closure questions spanning 11 crucial chapters of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis'.
A comprehensive lesson exploring Chapter 9 ('Not a Person') of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis', focusing on medical dehumanization, social stigma, and the historical and modern experiences of TB patients.
A rigorous high school lesson focused on identifying and interpreting idioms, sarcasm, and non-literal language in complex texts. Includes a classified-dossier style student practice worksheet and a comprehensive teacher answer key.
A dynamic lesson where students research the history of their favorite snack and craft a persuasive pitch to 'sell' its greatness. Includes a research organizer, writing prompt, and presentation template.
A comprehensive lesson designed to help Grade 9-12 students master public speaking techniques through structured practice, peer feedback, and discussion of common challenges.
An introductory role-play and scenario-based ELA lesson exploring the modern real-world parallels of Macbeth's core themes—ambition, betrayal, manipulation, and guilt—with differentiated scaffolds for moderate and heavy support needs.
An intensive analytical lesson focusing on Shakespeare's Macbeth, exploring the psychological decay of characters and the thematic significance of motif transformations across all five acts.
This lesson scaffolds the Text Analysis Response (Part 3) of the NYS ELA Regents using Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" from the August 2025 exam, providing bilingual paragraph frames and vocabulary supports for transitioning ELL students.
A comprehensive grammar lesson designed to help students master commas and apostrophes through structured style guides, model exercises, and active text-editing tasks.
A comprehensive high school ESL lesson focusing on the inspiring life of Louis Lee, a Chinese American aviation photographer during WWII. Students build reading comprehension, acquire history-themed vocabulary, and practice targeted proofreading skills including capitalization, punctuation, and subject-verb agreement.
A targeted lesson for ELA Regents Part 3 preparation, focusing on identifying central ideas and analyzing how literary devices develop those ideas using the short story 'The Mirror That Lies'.
This lesson equips ELL students with essential close reading strategies for the NYS ELA Regents, focusing on annotation, vocabulary in context, and identifying author's purpose and tone using passages from the 2025 exams.
This lesson prepares students for the NYS Regents English Language Arts Exam Part 3: Text Analysis Response. It focuses on identifying and analyzing metaphor, imagery, diction, and tone in nonfiction passages using actual exam excerpts.
A comprehensive lesson focusing on the NYS ELA Regents Part 3 Text Analysis Response, using an excerpt from John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis' to explore central ideas through literary strategies.
This lesson guides students through the brainstorming and planning phases of their Final Writing Task, focusing on analyzing freedom in the novels The Pearl, Just Mercy, Night, and In the Time of the Butterflies. Students will select two characters and plan a literary essay demonstrating how one is free and one is not.
A comprehensive assessment for Jason Reynolds' novel 'When I Was the Greatest', focusing on plot mechanics, character development, and thematic depth. Students will demonstrate their understanding of Ali's journey in Bed-Stuy through a 50-question multiple-choice exam.
An immersive movie guide for Tron: Legacy (2010), featuring a chronological fill-in-the-blank worksheet, an intro presentation, and a comprehensive answer key.
A comprehensive summative assessment and answer key for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, focusing on character arcs, mother-daughter dynamics, and cultural symbolism.
High school students synthesize personal storytelling with literary analysis by creating short, high-quality podcast segments. This project focuses on vocal delivery, sound design, and thematic depth to communicate complex ideas to a digital audience.
A final assessment lesson covering the chronological plot, themes, and symbolism of Cherie Dimaline's novel The Marrow Thieves.
A lesson focused on identifying and analyzing the central themes of the novel 'Prisoner B-3087' through the use of textual context clues and keyword association.
An introductory lesson on rhetoric through Janet Boyd's "Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking)", where students explore how audience, context, and genre shape rhetorical choices.
This lesson analyzes Chapter 2 of Just Mercy, focusing on how Stevenson develops his argument about individual agency and the inciting of change through knowledge and hope.
An introductory lesson on Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, focusing on characterization, systemic injustice, and the power of hope in the Introduction and Chapter 1.