Students explore how authors use setting to establish mood and atmosphere, including the use of pathetic fallacy.
A high-octane 60-minute review session focused on refining paragraph architecture for 7th grade students, emphasizing evidence integration, context for quotes, and paragraph unity. Students will use excerpts from the ELA Interim Assessment to construct sophisticated literary and informational analysis paragraphs using the ANEZiZoNEZiZo structure.
A lesson focused on building comparison and contrast skills by analyzing two popular video games, Roblox and Minecraft, using a Venn diagram.
A comprehensive lesson focused on mastering the ANEZiZoNEZiZo paragraph structure for literary analysis. Students will learn to construct strong arguments, identify techniques, provide evidence, and perform deep analysis through zooming in on diction and zooming out to thematic significance.
A focused lesson for 7th graders to master the art of elaboration by digging into the 'how' and 'why' of their evidence in both expository and argumentative writing.
Una lección enfocada en desarrollar habilidades para la Respuesta Escrita Larga (ECR) en español, centrada en el género argumentativo para la prueba STAAR. Incluye un pasaje de lectura, un organizador gráfico de planificación y una guía de calificación detallada.
A comprehensive lesson on comma usage, themed as a forensic investigation to help students identify and correct common punctuation errors.
A collection of universal supports and teaching tools designed to aid differentiation and provide scaffolding for all students throughout the 'Cosmic Chronicles' unit.
An analysis of the novel's rising action, the climactic confrontation with IT, and the resolution of the Murry family's struggle.
A deep dive into the underlying themes of love vs. conformity and the potent symbolism of light and shadow throughout the journey.
An exploration of the Murry household and the initial tesseract travel, focusing on character traits, the atmospheric setting of Camazotz, and the third-person limited point of view.
A comprehensive lesson on identifying prepositions and prepositional phrases, exploring their roles as adjective or adverbial modifiers within sentences using a construction-themed approach.
A comprehensive lesson teaching 5th graders the 'architecture' of a strong informational paragraph, focusing on topic sentences, supporting details, transitions, and conclusions.
A 20-minute mini-lesson introducing five key non-fiction text structures: description, chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. This lesson uses Revolutionary War examples to help students identify how authors organize information.
An 8th-grade ELA lesson focused on identifying and analyzing foreshadowing in chapters 16-20 of 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' by Jamie Ford. Students will act as literary detectives to hunt for clues about Keiko's evacuation and Henry's future.
