Rhetoric of Chains

A six-week multi-genre creative writing curriculum featuring four high-interest projects across narrative, expository, argumentative, and persuasive writing. Students progress from children's picture books to survival field guides, courtroom trial briefs, and Shark Tank innovation pitches.

A high-energy persuasive writing sprint where students invent a breakthrough solution and write an investor pitch deck and video script. Students apply ethos, pathos, and logos to secure simulated investment capital.

A dynamic slide deck teaching persuasive rhetorical appeals, hook formulas, benefit-focused messaging, objection handling, and investor pitch delivery.

A dynamic three-lesson English language acquisition sequence designed for K-12 English Language Learners. Students develop essential conversational fluency, classroom survival vocabulary, and rich descriptive language through structured dialogue, visual scaffolds, and interactive practice.

A two-week argumentative writing simulation where students represent prosecution or defense in a high-stakes mock courtroom case. Writers formulate claims, introduce textual exhibits, cite warrants, and rebut opposing testimony.

A persuasive pitch kit and scriptwriting guide for an innovation project. Features rhetorical appeal organizers, objection-handling templates, a 60-second commercial script planner, and an investor evaluation rubric.

A cohesive 5-day introductory unit designed to build historical context and thematic understanding for high school students before reading The Great Gatsby. Students explore the shift from traditionalism to modernism, the roaring twenties, consumer culture, the American Dream, and core modernist themes.

A one-week expository writing mission where students draft an illustrated extreme wilderness survival field guide. Writers master procedural sequencing, technical definitions, danger warnings, and informational text structures.

An instructional slide deck guiding students through argumentative writing, formulating defensible legal claims, linking evidence via warrants, and executing rebuttal strategies.

A comprehensive 4-week intensive English writing program for mid-intermediate English learners. Each week contains two 25-minute sessions focusing on core paragraph-building skills, transitional words, and structured writing prompts with a 4-point rubric.

A two-week narrative writing immersion where students author and storyboard an original children's picture book. Young writers explore character agency, page-turn pacing, sensory scene-setting, and narrative resolution.

A two-week argumentative trial brief project dossier and legal case file. Features case evidence exhibits, claim-warrant synthesis worksheets, counterclaim rebuttal planners, and an argumentative writing rubric.