A set of interactive prompt cards featuring diverse characters, settings, and conflicts that students can cut out and combine to brainstorm unique story summaries.
An exit ticket for Chapter 13 of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, analyzing Byron's character development after arriving in Alabama, including an evidence bank and sentence starters.
An exit ticket for Chapter 12 of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, focusing on the development of the Birmingham setting with an evidence bank and sentence starters.
A teacher's answer key for the 'Shadows and Summits' worksheet, providing exemplar responses and analysis of the themes in Chapter 10 of 'The Watsons Go to Birmingham'.
A student worksheet featuring text-dependent questions about Chapter 10 of 'The Watsons Go to Birmingham', focusing on the symbolic use of nature and darkness to explore racial tension.
An evaluation rubric for the Design Decoder lesson, assessing students on their rhetorical use of color, typography, visual hierarchy, and the strength of their written justifications.
A planning activity guide for students to design their own Public Service Announcement, requiring them to justify their rhetorical choices in color, typography, and layout.
A structured deconstruction worksheet where students analyze an advertisement's color palette, typography, and layout hierarchy to understand its rhetorical impact.
Instructional slides for the Design Decoder lesson, visually demonstrating color psychology, typography personalities, and layout principles like the Rule of Thirds and white space.
A comprehensive teacher guide for the Design Decoder lesson, outlining learning objectives, materials, and a step-by-step instructional sequence for teaching visual rhetoric to middle schoolers.
A unified answer key for all worksheets and the final assessment in the Lexicon Labs unit.
Revised final assessment: Fixed page break issues splitting sections, changed the dark background of the mastery challenge to a printable light gray/white, and increased the writing space for student responses.
Revised Lesson 2 exit ticket: Fixed the page break that cut off the footer, improved contrast for better legibility on the dark footer background, and added subtle handwriting guides.
Revised Lesson 2 worksheet: Fixed a page break splitting the final question of the first section and added guided handwriting lines to the replacement lab work area.
Revised Session 2 slides: Added explicit component labels to the entry anatomy slide and ensured uniform styling for answer choices on the lab trial slide to avoid telegraphing the correct answer.