Sentence structure fundamentals, subject-verb agreement, and precise usage of parts of speech including pronouns, conjunctions, and adjectives. Targets technical accuracy through mastery of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and verb mood.
A comprehensive 20-day intensive review for the TSIA2 Writing exam, covering punctuation, grammar, organizational revision, and sentence combining with daily drills and detailed explanations.
A festive instructional sequence focusing on grammar and collaborative storytelling through adult-appropriate Valentine's Day Madlibs. Includes 6 unique group dossiers, high-legibility slides, and a facilitator guide.
This sequence teaches undergraduate students how to leverage dictation technology to draft academic papers. It moves from oral brainstorming and outlining to drafting body paragraphs with transitions, managing complex citations via voice, maintaining formal academic tone, and utilizing text-to-speech for final auditory polishing.
A comprehensive graduate-level sequence focused on the professional revision process, moving from macro-structural diagnosis to micro-level prose polishing and final market positioning. Students develop the critical distance necessary for high-level editorial work and MFA-style workshops.
This mastery-based sequence for 9th-grade students focuses on advanced academic homophones (Tier 2 and 3) such as elicit/illicit, discrete/discreet, and affect/effect. Students progress from self-assessment to contextual analysis and final proficiency, bridging the gap between vocabulary acquisition and precise academic writing.
This sequence explores homophones and homonyms through the lens of humor and creative writing. Students move from analyzing simple puns to deconstructing literary wordplay in works by Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll, ultimately creating their own ambiguity-driven performances.
An advanced writing sequence for undergraduates focusing on the structural and rhetorical connection between introductions and conclusions. Students move beyond basic essay formats to explore complex argumentative arcs, implications, and stylistic authority.
An advanced inquiry into the rhetorical power of active and passive voice, exploring how grammatical choices influence agency, responsibility, and narrative focus across media, science, and literature.
An undergraduate inquiry into the politics of grammar, examining how active and passive voice are used to assign or obscure responsibility in political, media, corporate, and literary contexts.
A workshop-style sequence for undergraduate students focusing on the rhetorical and disciplinary applications of active and passive voice in academic writing. Students move from basic identification to mastering strategic voice selection for different academic fields.
This project-based sequence explores how active and passive voice manipulate narrative elements like pacing, suspense, and power dynamics. Students move from technical grammar understanding to strategic stylistic application in creative writing.
This sequence explores the strategic implications of active and passive voice in media, politics, and literature. Students move from analyzing news bias to deconstructing political 'non-apologies' and scientific objectivity, culminating in a creative writing project that demonstrates their mastery over sentence voice for rhetorical effect.
This sequence explores the rhetorical power of active and passive voice in media, politics, and public relations. Students move from basic grammatical mastery to analyzing how sentence structure can obscure agency, deflect responsibility, and shape public perception of truth and bias.
This sequence explores the rhetorical power of active and passive voice across various genres, including journalism, science, creative writing, and political discourse. Students move beyond basic mechanics to analyze how sentence structure influences accountability, objectivity, and suspense.
This sequence explores active and passive voice as sophisticated stylistic tools rather than rigid rules. Students learn to use active voice for narrative vigor and passive voice for scientific objectivity and structural cohesion in academic writing.
A comprehensive workshop series for undergraduate students focusing on the strategic use of active and passive voice in academic writing. Students move from basic diagnostics of 'bureaucratic bloat' to sophisticated paragraph-level cohesion and discipline-specific conventions.
A 10th-grade ELA unit exploring the strategic use of passive voice across various genres, including scientific writing, mystery narratives, and news media, to understand how grammatical choices influence tone, objectivity, and suspense.
This inquiry-based sequence explores the rhetorical and ethical implications of active and passive voice. Students analyze how sentence structure manipulates agency and responsibility in politics, science, and journalism, culminating in a strategic communication project.
An advanced grammar sequence for 11th-grade students focused on the nuances of the passive voice in media and journalism. Students explore agency, reporting structures, causative forms, and stative passives to understand how grammar shapes perspective and bias.
This sequence guides 11th-grade students through advanced syntactic structures, including inversion, cleft sentences, and fronting. Students progress from analyzing professional models to applying these high-level grammatical techniques in their own academic writing to enhance authority, emphasis, and flow.
A high-intensity two-day preparation program for the TSIA2 ELAR exam, focusing on reading comprehension, sentence structure, grammar, and essay writing through hands-on station activities.
This undergraduate-level sequence explores the academic field of lexicography, focusing on historical dictionary principles, etymological tracing of Indo-European roots, and the tension between descriptive and prescriptive linguistics. Students develop proficiency in using the OED and specialized disciplinary glossaries to produce a comprehensive 'word biography' as a final project.
A rigorous writer's workshop sequence targeting homophone accuracy in formal writing. Students master common and advanced homophones through grammatical analysis and peer-editing cycles.
This sequence transforms choppy, basic writing into sophisticated prose through advanced grammar techniques. Students master reduced clauses, absolute phrases, complex parallelism, and cohesive threading to meet the demands of college-level and professional communication.
An advanced 12th-grade sequence exploring the rhetorical impact of pronoun choice and antecedent manipulation in political discourse, literature, and persuasion. Students move beyond basic grammar to analyze how "we," "you," and "they" shape identity, power, and perspective.
A high-school sequence focused on mastering pronoun clarity in academic writing, moving from basic antecedent matching to sophisticated revision of vague and broad references.
This inquiry-based sequence explores the evolving nature of grammar, specifically addressing the debate around the singular 'they' and gender-neutral language. Students move from analyzing historical style guides to evaluating modern usage in journalism and academia.
A rigorous grammar workshop focused on pronoun-antecedent agreement in academic editing, moving from basic diagnostics to complex collective nouns and indefinite pronouns.
A comprehensive 11th-grade grammar sequence focusing on subject-verb agreement in complex sentences. Students progress from identifying intervening phrases to mastering indefinite pronouns, inverted syntax, and collective nouns, culminating in a professional copy-editing simulation.
A professional simulation where students act as copy editors for a publishing house, focusing on identifying and correcting pronoun-antecedent errors across various genres. The sequence emphasizes the economic and professional value of grammatical precision.
This sequence explores the rhetorical impact of ambiguous pronouns in high-stakes contexts like law and technical writing. Students progress from identifying vague 'broad references' to constructing a portfolio of precise, bulletproof technical revisions.
This sequence explores the evolution of pronouns and antecedents, specifically focusing on the singular 'they' and gender-neutral language. Students analyze historical usage, compare modern style guides, and debate the tension between prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
An advanced 12th-grade sequence focused on mastering subject-verb agreement in complex syntactic structures. Using a 'Grammar Forensics' theme, students investigate intervening phrases, inverted syntax, collective nouns, and compound subjects through a game-based, analytical lens.
A rigorous exploration of subject-verb agreement for undergraduate writers, focusing on complex syntactic structures, intervening modifiers, and rhetorical inversion to ensure grammatical precision in academic discourse.
A professional simulation where students act as copy editors, mastering pronouns and antecedents to maintain corporate credibility and clarity.
This inquiry-based sequence explores the evolving landscape of pronoun usage, specifically focusing on the singular 'they' and gender-neutral language. Students investigate historical prescriptions, modern style guide updates, and practical strategies for inclusive writing.
This sequence explores the nuances of collective nouns through a sociolinguistic and rhetorical lens, moving beyond simple rights and wrongs to explore usage variations. Students investigate differences between American and British English conventions and the concept of 'notional agreement' versus 'formal agreement,' empowering them to make intentional stylistic choices when treating groups as single units or collections of individuals.
An advanced 10th-grade ELA sequence that treats grammar as a linguistic inquiry, exploring the tension between formal rules and notional agreement. Students analyze real-world usage, dialectical differences, and semantic logic to master complex subject-verb agreement.
An advanced rhetorical study of foreign words and expressions in professional and literary contexts, focusing on the tension between prestige and alienation. Students move from technical mechanics and common misuses to analyzing code-switching in literature and designing corporate style policies.
This sequence explores the nuances of language through lexicography, etymology, and specialized reference materials, moving from historical word analysis to intentional stylistic choices in writing.
This sequence explores the rhetorical power and nuance of foreign phrases in English, moving from context-clue inference to stylistic application in creative writing. Students will analyze how words like 'carpe diem' and 'déjà vu' add layers of meaning that standard English translations often lack.
This sequence transforms students into professional copyeditors by teaching systematic workflows for mechanical formatting. Students move from manual error detection to automated tool mastery, culminating in a high-stakes proofreading simulation.
A comprehensive sequence for undergraduate students exploring the rhetorical power of typography, from font selection and micro-spacing to page-level layout and professional polish.
This sequence targets the sophisticated use of punctuation and capitalization to control syntax, rhythm, and nuance in undergraduate writing. Students move from basic correctness to stylistic mastery, using mechanics as tools for formatting complex ideas.
This sequence explores the principles of professional document design, focusing on how visual hierarchy, white space, headings, typography, and lists enhance readability and user experience. Students move from theoretical design principles to the practical application of formatting in complex business reports.
A comprehensive sequence for undergraduate students focusing on the technical and mechanical standards of academic writing. Students learn to navigate and apply APA, MLA, and Chicago styles to create publication-ready manuscripts, emphasizing document setup, citation mechanics, and visual data presentation.
A technical writing sequence for 12th graders focused on transforming complex information into user-friendly formats using lists, parallelism, hierarchy, and visual callouts. Students progress from grammatical precision to full document design and usability testing.
A comprehensive 12th-grade sequence on academic formatting standards, focusing on MLA, APA, and Chicago styles to prepare students for collegiate-level research and professional editing.
A simulation-based sequence where students act as copyeditors in a publishing house, mastering formatting standards, capitalization nuances, numbering conventions, and style guide adherence to ensure professional consistency.
A project-based sequence bridging English Language Arts and graphic design. Students learn how text formatting—typography, white space, headings, and visual anchors—affects reader comprehension and engagement, culminating in the design of a technical quick-start guide.
This sequence explores advanced punctuation as a tool for rhetoric and style. Students analyze how authors use semicolons, colons, dashes, and varied capitalization to control pacing, tone, and emphasis in literary and political texts.
This sequence explores the mechanics of academic manuscript formatting, comparing MLA and APA styles. Students learn how standardized formatting protects intellectual property and facilitates scholarly communication through precise manuscript setup, citation punctuation, and bibliographic construction.
A comprehensive workshop-based sequence for graduate students focusing on the architecture, ethics, and strategic organization of debate briefs. Students progress from structural theory to the construction of a usable, high-level Master Brief.
A dynamic high school unit exploring the roots, techniques, and performance of slam and spoken word poetry, culminating in a school-wide poetry slam.
A complete unit for the second part of Chapter 1 of The Metamorphosis, covering reading analysis, grammar skills (commas), and thematic exploration of authority.
A comprehensive 5-day unit for college-level writing focused on argumentative essay construction using modern news events. Students progress from research and outlining to peer review and final submission.
A comprehensive unit on mixed conditionals where students explore hypothetical scenarios involving past actions with present consequences and permanent states with past outcomes, all set within a 'multiverse' theme.
This sequence explores the technical and structural organization of nonfiction texts. Students act as professional editors, analyzing table of contents, paratextual features like footnotes, data visualizations, and syntactic complexity to understand how information architecture influences readability and impact.
An advanced creative writing sequence for graduate students focusing on the mechanics of interiority, psychological realism, and the rendering of human consciousness through syntax, narrative distance, and subtext.
A high-stakes investigative sequence where students act as professional editors to uncover and correct communication failures caused by misplaced and squinting modifiers in news, law, and signage.
A high-stakes grammar sequence where students act as professional editors, mastering misplaced modifiers to ensure credibility and clarity in legal, technical, and journalistic contexts. Students analyze real-world impacts of ambiguous language and learn to communicate with professional precision.
This sequence explores the rhetorical and practical consequences of misplaced modifiers in journalism, law, and humor. Students move from identifying 'crash blossoms' in headlines to analyzing the legal stakes of syntax and intentionally manipulating ambiguity for comedic effect.
A high-level editing unit for 12th-grade students focusing on the strategic placement of modifiers to enhance clarity and authority in professional and academic writing. Students analyze real-world ambiguity in legal and journalistic texts to master the nuances of syntactic precision.
This sequence explores the creative and rhetorical power of homophones, moving from error correction to intentional artistic use in literature, satire, and performance.
This sequence focuses on the advanced application of homophones within professional and formal writing contexts. Students move beyond basic spelling to analyze how linguistic precision impacts credibility, authority, and meaning in high-stakes environments like law, government, and corporate communication.
An advanced exploration of Free Indirect Discourse (FID) for graduate students, tracing its development from 19th-century realism to high modernism. The sequence focuses on linguistic markers, the 'double-voiced' nature of narration, and the breakdown of the boundary between objective and subjective experience.
This sequence explores the mechanics and logic of relative pronouns in academic and professional writing. Students master restrictive vs. non-restrictive clauses, animacy conventions, pronoun omission, and formal prepositional structures to improve clarity and precision.
A comprehensive 9-week study of Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', focusing on argumentative writing through textual evidence and narrative expansion. The sequence utilizes graphic organizers, visual scaffolding, and increased opportunities to respond to deepen student engagement with the surrealist text.
An advanced ELA sequence for 12th graders focused on the rhetorical and syntactic power of adjectives. Students progress from analyzing connotation and nuance to mastering complex structures like cumulative, coordinate, and compound adjectives, ultimately refining their own prose for economy and sensory precision in college-level writing.
A comprehensive 10th-grade sequence exploring the rhetorical power of adjectives, moving from basic connotation to syntactic logic and strategic revision for tone and mood.
A simulation-based sequence where students act as communications professionals, exploring the real-world impact of homophone accuracy in business and digital environments. Students master common homophones while developing professional writing skills and audience awareness.
A high-level grammar and rhetoric sequence for 9th-grade advanced students, focusing on negative inversion, cleft sentences, and emphatic structures to enhance persuasive writing and speaking.
This sequence addresses the specific grammatical challenges of describing data sets, statistics, and research findings. It builds from basic quantification to complex comparisons, ensuring students can accurately report findings with professional precision.
This sequence situates subject-verb agreement within the professional responsibilities of copy editors and technical writers, moving from manual correction to critical evaluation of automated tools.
A rigorous, logic-based approach to subject-verb agreement for advanced undergraduates and test-prep students. This sequence treats grammar as a structural puzzle, focusing on complex relative clauses, verbal subjects, quantitative expressions, and long-distance modifiers typical of standardized exams like the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT.
A comprehensive deep dive into subject-verb agreement for undergraduate academic writing. This sequence moves from basic sentence deconstruction to mastering complex syntactic structures, ensuring students can maintain grammatical precision in high-level arguments.
A high-energy, gamified sequence focused on mastering subject-verb agreement. Students treat grammar rules as game mechanics, progressing through levels of increasing complexity from irregular nouns to the 'SANAM' rule.
A journalism-themed grammar unit where 11th-grade students act as copy editors. The sequence focuses on subject-verb agreement in professional media contexts, from breaking news tickers to headline syntax and interview transcripts.
A high-school level sequence that treats subject-verb agreement as a tool for rhetorical precision and professional credibility rather than just a set of rules. Students progress from analyzing real-world errors to mastering complex syntax and systematic editing.
A comprehensive 9th Grade English sequence focusing on subject-verb agreement through sentence analysis. Students learn to navigate intervening phrases, appositives, and inverted structures to ensure grammatical precision in complex writing.
An advanced exploration of punctuation as a rhetorical tool, moving beyond basic rules to examine how dashes, fragments, and end marks shape authorial voice and rhythm. Designed for undergraduate students to master stylistic control.
A comprehensive sequence for undergraduate students on the mechanics of incorporating quotations into academic writing. Students master the technical interaction between quotation marks, end marks, citations, and alterations to maintain grammatical integrity and ethical standards.
A high-school level sequence exploring the nuances of the passive voice in academic and journalistic contexts, focusing on agentless passives, impersonal structures, and causative forms to enhance objectivity.
This advanced writing sequence for undergraduate students explores grammar as a rhetorical tool for academic and professional precision. Students move beyond basic correctness to master syntactic inversion, the subjunctive mood, advanced conditionals, and strategic passive voice to enhance authority and clarity in their writing.
A college-preparatory sequence for 11th grade ELA focusing on the rhetorical and strategic implications of active and passive voice. Students move beyond basic identification to understand how voice choice shapes agency, objectivity, and political narrative.
A comprehensive sequence for 12th-grade students focused on mastering the subjunctive mood and conditional tenses. Students progress from foundational grammatical structures to complex speculative argumentation and formal policy drafting.
This workshop-style sequence focuses on the nuanced use of perfect and progressive verb tenses to control narrative time and sequencing in advanced writing. Students analyze non-linear narratives, practice sentence combining with perfect aspects, and explore the atmospheric effects of progressive forms to master narrative clarity.
A comprehensive unit for undergraduate students exploring the rhetorical functions of verb tenses in academic writing. Students learn how to navigate the conventions of literary analysis, scientific reporting, and cross-disciplinary style guides.
This sequence improves undergraduate prose by auditing verb choices, replacing weak linking verbs and nominalizations with precise action verbs, and mastering the rhetorical use of active and passive voice. Students move from quantitative analysis of their own writing to a final revitalized essay demonstrating clarity and vigor.
A technical dive into the grammar of active and passive voice. Students move from mapping sentence architecture to masterfully controlling sentence focus through voice manipulation.
A professional editing simulation where students act as copy editors to master active and passive voice. This sequence focuses on clarity, vigor, and professional impact in non-fiction, resumes, and technical writing.
This sequence provides a comprehensive exploration of active and passive voice, moving from basic sentence structure to sophisticated stylistic choices. Students will learn to identify, convert, and strategically use different voices to enhance clarity and impact in their writing.
An undergraduate-level sequence focusing on pronouns as rhetorical tools for cohesion, emphasis, and flow. Students move beyond basic grammar to explore the 'Known-New' contract, demonstrative synthesis, and stylistic variety in professional and personal writing.
An undergraduate-level exploration of the evolution of pronouns in English, focusing on the shift from generic 'he' to inclusive standards like the singular 'they' across major academic style guides. Students analyze historical texts, master the syntax of inclusive language, and apply these standards to professional writing.
An advanced exploration of pronoun case for undergraduate students, moving beyond basic subject/object distinctions into complex syntactic structures, relative clauses, elliptical comparisons, and gerundial possessives.
This sequence addresses vague pronoun reference in undergraduate writing. Students analyze how ambiguous antecedents, particularly the broad use of 'this' and 'which,' undermine clarity and authority in academic arguments. Through workshop-style revisions and comparative analysis, students learn to edit complex texts to ensure every pronoun has a clear, logical antecedent.
An inquiry-based exploration of pronoun precision in legal, professional, and rhetorical contexts. Students analyze how pronoun ambiguity can lead to significant real-world consequences, from legal disputes to loss of rhetorical power.
A 12th-grade mastery sequence targeting the 'myself' epidemic, reflexive/intensive pronoun distinctions, and compound case errors. Students transition from learners to professional editors, mastering high-stakes grammar for business and academic contexts.
A rigorous 12th Grade ELA sequence focused on pronoun clarity, rhetorical precision, and the elimination of vague references in academic and professional writing. Students move from identifying 'orphan pronouns' to masterfully using summary nouns and managing complex clauses for authoritative argumentation.
An advanced grammar sequence for undergraduate students focusing on the nuances of pronoun usage to achieve professional-grade stylistic polish and mechanical accuracy.
A comprehensive unit for undergraduate students exploring the evolution of pronoun usage in academic and professional contexts, focusing on inclusivity, style guide shifts, and rhetorical stance.
A writing-centered approach to context clues where students act as 'linguistic architects' to construct sentences that define difficult vocabulary through appositives, examples, and restatement.
This workshop-style sequence focuses on the power of syntax manipulation, specifically inversion, to add emphasis and dramatic flair to writing. Students move from standard sentence structures to sophisticated inverted forms using negative adverbials, limiting phrases, and cleft sentences.
A high-level grammar sequence for 12th-grade students focusing on passive voice variants and impersonal structures to enhance academic writing. Students master distancing techniques, causative structures, and nominalization to achieve a professional, objective tone in their scholarly work.
This sequence explores the mechanics and stylistic implications of relative pronouns in complex syntax for undergraduate students. It covers restrictive/non-restrictive clauses, the who/whom distinction, prepositional integration, possessive relative clauses, and stylistic omission to improve sentence variety and academic tone.
A high-level grammar sequence for 12th graders focused on using relative pronouns to enhance sentence complexity and variety. Students move from clause identification to sophisticated stylistic choices, including restrictive vs. non-restrictive distinctions and reduced relative clauses.
An immersive sequence for undergraduate playwriting students focusing on the professional iterative process of drafting, hearing work aloud, and executing rigorous rewrites using structured feedback frameworks.
This sequence addresses the critical role of linguistic precision in professional and technical writing, focusing on how homophone errors can undermine credibility. Students transition from identifying common errors to mastering complex, workplace-specific homophone pairs, culminating in a simulated editorial workshop.
