Academic Listening Rubric

A detailed student evidence log for the final podcast project, providing sections for analyzing intent, vocal forensics, and bias check.

A guide for the final project where students select a podcast episode, analyze its intent and bias, and present their findings, including a checklist and a performance rubric.

Slides for the final project launch, introducing the media critic mission, criteria for analyzing podcasts, and methods for citing audio evidence.

Final assessment for the Search Strategy Academy unit, covering keywords, Boolean operators, database use, and snippet analysis.

Answer key for the Lesson 4 worksheet on grammatical reductions.

Teacher guide for "The Source Weaver" lesson. It outlines the synthesis process, provides a hook activity, transition words for ESL support, and a sample synthesized paragraph.

Answer key for the Lesson 3 worksheet on assimilation.

Student scavenger hunt log for Lesson 5, where students document their search strings and answers to obscure research questions.

Answer key for the Lesson 2 worksheet on elision.

Answer key for the Lesson 1 worksheet on linking and intrusion.

Capstone student project for "The Source Weaver" lesson. Students analyze two short texts about Mars, take notes, and synthesize the information into a single coherent paragraph using their own vocabulary and sentence structures.

Introductory slide deck for Lesson 5, reviewing all strategic search techniques and introducing the culminating Scavenger Hunt challenge.

A comprehensive teacher guide for the Speech Lab sequence, including audio scripts, instructional cues, pacing, and differentiation strategies.

Visual slides for "The Source Weaver" lesson. These slides introduce students to the concept of synthesis as connecting ideas from multiple sources to create a new, coherent whole.