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A high school ELA and History lesson exploring satire as a tool for social criticism, using Enlightenment thinkers Montesquieu and Voltaire as historical anchors and modern school life as the creative subject.

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An engaging grammar and nonverbal communication lesson where high school students explore parts of speech, facial expressions, and body language through creative storytelling and mad libs.

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Double Take Mad Libs

A comprehensive, 10-page Mad Libs packet featuring five high-interest scenarios. Each scenario is a 2-page set including a dedicated Word Prep planning page with 12 vocabulary slots, and a full-page, 500-word narrative with wide handwriting blanks for vocational comedies and high school drama.

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Linguistic Signals

A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.

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Unit 9 Overview

An overall curriculum overview and teacher preparation guide for Unit 9 (Lessons 71–78). This resource maps out the core skills, spiral pathways, cumulative benchmarks, and pacing guides for spelling-change rules and alternate vowel patterns.

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Double Take Word Bank

A comprehensive word bank featuring curated, high-interest nouns, verbs, adjectives, emotions, body language, and facial expressions with descriptive icons for high school level writing.

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A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.

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A comprehensive Unit 9 spelling and decoding diagnostic assessment for high school readers. It includes student test sections for spelling-change rules, alternate-spelling recognition, sound-sorting, and sentence reading.

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A professional and sleek anchor chart defining parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and nonverbal communication elements (emotions, body language, facial expressions) with high-school appropriate definitions and examples.

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Word Builders

A foundational vocabulary and morphology unit designed specifically for high school newcomer ESL students. It focuses on breaking down unfamiliar English words into high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and root words using heavy visual aids, scaffolded sentence stems, and highly collaborative activities.

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Horizon Reading Series

A cohesive, beautifully designed collection of reading comprehension worksheets spanning high school grades 9-12. Each single-page worksheet features a high-interest, curriculum-aligned text followed by three standards-aligned multiple-choice questions and two critical short-answer questions.

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