A comprehensive lesson on advanced revising and editing for 10th grade, focusing on organizational structure, parallel construction, sentence effectiveness, and grammatical precision. Students will learn to transform drafts into polished, professional pieces of writing.

In this lesson, students will practice synthesizing information from an informational text and a poem. They will learn to identify shared themes and contrasting perspectives to develop a comprehensive understanding of the aging process.

This lesson explores how Brian Doyle uses specific diction and complex syntax in 'Joyas Voladoras' to establish a tone of profound wonder and bittersweet vulnerability. Students will analyze textual evidence to connect linguistic choices to the overall mood and voice.

A synthesis lesson comparing the biological heart in 'Anatomy of a Human Heart' with the emotional and comparative heart in Brian Doyle's 'Joyas Voladoras.' Students will analyze how scientific facts and literary metaphors work together to create a deeper understanding of the heart.

An advanced rhetorical analysis lesson for AP Language students focusing on the SOAPSTone method to deconstruct non-fiction texts and identify the speaker's line of reasoning.