A comprehensive assessment of C.S. Lewis's 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' covering all 17 chapters through basic recall, character analysis, and thematic understanding.

A high-energy board game lesson where students identify Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in modern ads, social media, and historical speeches. Students compete in teams to master the art of persuasion and navigate the path to rhetorical victory.

A quick introductory lesson to help students master Flipgrid for their Tier 3 Book Talk project. This lesson covers technical setup, content structuring, and creative delivery tips specifically for the sports fiction context.

A focused assessment on the first seven chapters of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, covering Brian's initial survival challenges, the plane crash, and his early encounters with the wilderness.

A comprehensive lesson on synonyms and antonyms featuring word exploration from foundational to advanced levels through labs, tasks, and games.

A comprehensive lesson on identifying and analyzing nine types of figurative language through tiered study guides and a visual reference sheet.

Students analyze two versions of the Snow White story to understand parallel plots, identifying how events in the Queen's journey occur simultaneously with Snow White's.

A lesson focused on school recycling, vocabulary development, and drawing conclusions for Earth Day. Students will engage with a reading passage and sequence cards to understand environmental impact.

A modern take on cursive handwriting for middle school students, focusing on academic vocabulary, signature development, and the efficiency of script for note-taking. This lesson moves beyond elementary tracing to focus on fluid connections and professional presentation.

This lesson introduces students to identifying and distinguishing between cause-and-effect and problem-solution text structures using a high-interest passage about urban heat islands. Students will analyze the relationship between events and the methods used to solve environmental challenges.

A comprehensive study of 'The Cruel Tribute', focusing on character trait analysis, textual evidence, and the motivations of heroes and villains in Greek mythology.

A lesson focused on identifying the features of autobiographical writing, including chronological text structure and first-person perspective.

A reading comprehension lesson focused on historical informational texts, specifically targeting context clues and vocabulary acquisition skills.

A fast-paced 30-minute lesson focusing on the Greek root 'graph' (to write/draw), covering spelling rules for suffixes and cross-curricular application in science, math, and history.

A comprehensive unit on Lois Lowry's 'Number the Stars', exploring the historical context of Nazi-occupied Denmark, character development, themes of bravery and friendship, and the symbolic elements used throughout the novel.

Focuses on the narrative arc of the Theseus myth, analyzing character motivations and the stages of the Hero's Journey.

A deep dive into the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, focusing on the historical and cultural tensions between Crete and Athens in Ancient Greece.

A comprehensive weekly assessment of plot, character, theme, and setting.

A 60-minute lesson exploring resilience through Henley's 'Invictus' and Williams' 'The Use of Force' using the 'I Do, We Do, You Do' model.

Evaluating how setting influences mood and craft in realistic fiction.

Identifying the underlying messages and moral foundations in myths.

Analyzing how characters grow and change in realistic fiction.

Deconstructing the framework of a story using plot structures in fables.

A challenging 20-minute mini-lesson for 7th graders analyzing how POV and character motivation reveal Julia Alvarez's purpose in humanizing the Mirabal sisters.

A comprehensive reteach lesson on identifying and correcting sentence fragments, themed around environmental conservation and 'going green'. Includes a student worksheet and a detailed teacher facilitation guide with an answer key.

A station-based activity where students investigate and identify nine different types of figurative language through standalone sentence examples.

This lesson guides students through identifying sectional main ideas and synthesizing them into a central theme using the historical passage 'Picturing Our Planet'.

A comprehensive two-hour test preparation lesson focusing on Process of Elimination (POE) and prompt paraphrasing, utilizing 2025 NYS Grade 7 ELA released items to build student confidence and accuracy.

A lesson focused on the suffixes -ation, -cation, and -ition and how they transform verbs into nouns. Students analyze word pairs like 'inform' and 'information'.

A lesson focused on the suffix -ion involving spelling changes such as dropping the final 'e' or changing 'd' to 's'. Students analyze pairs like 'operate' and 'operation'.

A lesson focused on the suffixes -ion and -ian with no spelling change to the base word. Students analyze nouns like 'invention', 'magician', and 'musician'.

A lesson focused on the suffix -ion and how it changes verbs into nouns with no spelling change to the base word. Students analyze word pairs like 'collect' and 'collection'.

A targeted grammar lesson focusing on subject-verb agreement through the high-interest lens of professional soccer. Designed for advanced students who need to master complex compound subjects and prepositional phrase interference.

Students become Word Alchemists, learning to transform common, 'base' vocabulary into high-powered academic language through context and connotation.

Day 4: Students participate in a 'Grand Jury' collaborative discussion to synthesize their evidence from the week and reach a final verdict on the unit's key texts.

Day 3: Students dive into 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, using textual evidence to infer the poem's deeper meanings about power and time.

Day 2: Students examine a non-fiction article about the Mary Celeste to distinguish between explicit facts and inferences while citing several pieces of evidence.