Fastest Woman Passage

A short, engaging reading passage about the life of Wilma Rudolph, specifically tailored for 9th-grade remedial readers. It focuses on her journey from polio and leg braces to Olympic gold, emphasizing the theme of perseverance.

THTerrie Huff

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Word Builders

A foundational vocabulary and morphology unit designed specifically for high school newcomer ESL students. It focuses on breaking down unfamiliar English words into high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and root words using heavy visual aids, scaffolded sentence stems, and highly collaborative activities.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Alternian Archive

A high-intensity, visually striking trivia showdown centered on the deep-cut lore of the Homestuck Beta Trolls. Designed specifically for dedicated fans, this lesson challenges students with complex questions on relationships, quirks, and Alternian history.

Lenny

Alternian Archive Host Guide

A print-ready, high-contrast 2-page Host Guide and Lore Explainer for the Alternian Archive trivia deck. Features a top-secret retro computer printout aesthetic, detailed answer explanations, and a quick-scoring grid.

Lenny

Iceberg Investigators Presentation Slides

Weaving Worlds

A 3-lesson unit on culture, identity, empathy, and building an inclusive school community. Students explore the cultural iceberg, share personal perspective narratives, and collaborate on actionable school-wide inclusion plans.

Cynthia Rios

Word Part Detectives

A dynamic 90-minute lesson where newcomers learn to identify root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Through color-coded physical cards, collaborative games, and visual anchor charts, students practice decoding unfamiliar words and speaking with structured sentence frames.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Alternian Archive Slides

An expanded, visually striking 30-slide trivia deck about the Homestuck Beta Trolls. Features 12 hyper-difficult, lore-accurate questions and answers, styled in an authentic dark terminal theme with neon color accents matching the troll blood spectrum.

Lenny

Volume and Values

A transition curriculum linking heavy metal passion with character, true rebellion, and leadership. Features an in-school coaching workshop and a parallel at-home action journal for tonight.

Marcia Cullinane

Inclusion Architects

Students apply their deep listening and empathy skills to design a school-wide inclusion campaign or classroom standard, designing collaborative action items.

Cynthia Rios

Detective Exit Ticket

A 2-page assessment pack featuring a 1-page student exit ticket with word part identification and sentence completion, followed by a detailed teacher answer key page.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Perspective Passages

Students engage in active empathy and narrative exchange, analyzing how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds shape our perspectives of shared environments.

Cynthia Rios

Interactive Slideshow and Presentation

An interactive 5-slide presentation designed to guide instruction, featuring color-coded visual layouts, physical movement guides, and built-in scripts for the teacher.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Iceberg Investigators

Students explore the concept of the cultural iceberg, distinguishing between visible elements of culture and deep, invisible values, to recognize the richness of identity.

Fastest Woman Passage