A targeted intervention designed to help 10th-grade students move beyond plot summary and into deep literary analysis for their weekly book club journals. This lesson provides clear frameworks for paragraph construction and analytical thinking.

A fairytale folklore project that explores the original dark roots of classic tales and analyzes their subversion and intersection in Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods'.

A comprehensive project-based lesson where students research the classic literary origins of the characters in 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' before watching the film to compare adaptations and explore literary idioms.

A comprehensive 5-day lesson guiding students through the process of writing a personal essay about their multiple intelligences, skills, and future career paths.

A high-energy, detective-themed lesson exploring how gerunds function as nouns while maintaining their verb-like properties. Designed for advanced students to master identification and usage in various sentence roles.

A deep dive into morphology and common word endings (-able, -ible, -ary, -ery, -ory, -ant, -ent), focusing on how Latin roots and base words determine spelling patterns.

A comprehensive introduction to Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming, covering subjects, verbs, direct objects, and prepositional phrases through a structural engineering lens.

A lesson focused on teaching WIDA level 3 students how to construct strong topic sentences using a two-part formula: the topic and the clear idea. Students will use graphic organizers and sentence starters to build academic paragraph foundations.

Students dive into the world of marketing to master the rhetorical triangle: ethos, pathos, and logos. They will design a professional product poster and write a compelling pitch that combines product backstory with targeted sales tactics.

A 20-minute mini-lesson focusing on how the structural choices in Tupac Shakur's poem 'The Rose That Grew from Concrete' reveal its core theme of resilience.

A 50-minute textual analysis lesson focusing on fluency, comprehension, and thematic development in Tupac Shakur's 'The Rose That Grew from Concrete'. Students analyze the central metaphor and identify how the author develops a theme of resilience.

An exploration of Chapters 13-15 of Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' focusing on Janie's transition to the Everglades and her deepening relationship with Tea Cake.

A review lesson for ELL students focused on recalling key characters and events from Books 1-5 of The Odyssey after a school break.