A high-energy, tropical-themed review of main idea and supporting details, designed for the day before spring break. Students complete an 'Island Escape' challenge to 'earn' their break.

Students explore the stories of Prometheus's rebellion and Odysseus's long journey home, building vocabulary related to Greek mythology, character traits, and epic quests.

A comprehensive reteach packet focused on retelling and summarizing complex literary texts, featuring paired stories about ambition and caution.

An introductory lesson on CER structure using a graphic organizer approach. Students practice developing claims and supporting reasons across four different prompt types: argumentative, informational, text-based, and comparative.

A lesson focusing on Chapter 18 of 'The Westing Game', exploring the themes of surveillance, hidden identities, and the burgeoning relationship between Turtle Wexler and Flora Baumbach.

A pre-reading activator for 'Two Roads' by Gary D. Schmidt, focusing on building historical context and making initial inferences about characters and setting through a clue-based scavenger hunt.

A lesson focused on distinguishing between main ideas in informational paragraphs and central themes in short fictional stories. Students will practice identifying key details and synthesizing them into a core message.

This lesson guides students through the process of analyzing three distinct sources—a video and two articles—to plan a 4-paragraph research essay on the theme of resilience. Students will learn to identify key evidence, craft author's claims, and strategically group sources for effective comparison and contrast.