A high-energy, immersive opening game for a memoir unit where students play a detective-themed version of Two Truths and a Lie to explore the boundaries of memory and narrative truth.
A lesson exploring the diverse backgrounds of Allied soldiers who fought in WWII and witnessed the Holocaust, focusing on claim identification and evidence-based writing.
A comprehensive final assessment and review for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, focusing on Brian's survival journey, character growth, and the novel's core themes.
A lesson on writing diamante poems with a focus on nature, covering structure, parts of speech, and creative expression.
A 50-minute resource room lesson for 11th-grade students covering Macbeth Act 4. Focuses on the interplay of manhood, ambition, and accountability through a literacy-heavy scaffolded approach including syllabication, reading comprehension, and ANEZZC-structured paragraph writing.
A series of speech-language activities themed around navigating middle school, targeting multiple meanings, grammar, figurative language, vocabulary, inference, and narrative skills.
A lesson focused on identifying and completing analogies based on synonym and antonym relationships, designed for 7th-grade students.
A narrative-driven exploration of the human body's systems, designed to practice literary analysis standards (RL) through a science-fiction lens. Students read a 2-page story about a microscopic journey and analyze characters, themes, and vocabulary.
A reading comprehension lesson based on an article about Minnesota teens who developed 'TogetherIV', an app designed to support patients receiving medical infusions.
A comprehensive study of John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis', focusing on the history of the disease, its impact on human history, and the literary techniques used to convey its devastating reality.
A deep dive into the first seven chapters of 'Flipped', focusing on contrasting points of view, character development, and social-emotional skills like empathy and perspective-taking.
An analysis of Chapter 6, exploring the Victorian romanticization of tuberculosis as a 'beautiful death' and the paradigm-shifting scientific discovery of the bacteria by Robert Koch.
A intensive reteach lesson on RI 8.8, focusing on delineating and evaluating arguments using MLK Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and a modern editorial on school start times. Students will assess claims, reasoning, and evidence relevance and sufficiency.
A focused study on Ana, the suspicious yet observant neighbor from Seedfolks. Students explore her perspective on the changing neighborhood and her initial reaction to Kim's garden.