Teaches students the 'Reductio ad Absurdum' technique—proving a point by showing the logical impossibility of its opposite.
A focused lesson on crafting a thesis statement for a comparative essay between Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, specifically using the 'Answer to a Question' strategy.
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 45-minute interactive station-based lesson where students explore sensory imagery by describing unique environments through a single lens of perception.
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 lesson exploring the arrival of the Manager in Chapter 1 of 'The Metamorphosis'. Students analyze the immediate dehumanization of Gregor by his family and superiors, focusing on word choice and the conflict between individual humanity and bureaucratic authority.
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.
Students will investigate how social media algorithms and editorial bias shape their understanding of reality. Through headline analysis and a simulation activity, 9th graders will develop the critical thinking skills needed to navigate a digital information landscape.
A comprehensive introduction to Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming, covering subjects, verbs, direct objects, and prepositional phrases through a structural engineering lens.
