An advanced debate sequence for undergraduate students focused on offensive refutation strategies. Students learn to master link turns, impact turns, and double binds to repurpose opponent logic into their own offensive gains.
A four-day intensive study of Shakespeare's Macbeth, focusing on characterization and the development of ambition to prepare students for an argumentative essay on Macbeth's worthiness for the throne.
A comprehensive lesson sequence for Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven', focusing on Gothic elements, sound devices, and the psychological descent into madness. This sequence adapts a 180-minute curriculum into three 75-minute sessions with embedded instructional strategies.
A comprehensive two-day exploration of Macbeth Act 1, focusing on the supernatural, ambition, and the psychological shift towards murder. Includes a teacher guide, student workbooks, slide decks, and answer keys.
A series of lessons focused on advanced literary analysis, synthesis of multiple texts, and the construction of complex argumentative essays.
An intensive writing workshop for undergraduate students to master the art of scholarship essays through narrative structure, rhetorical analysis, and persuasive storytelling. Students develop a versatile 'master essay' and learn to tailor it for various high-stakes funding opportunities.
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 sequence for 9th-grade students to improve reading comprehension through visualization and storyboarding, focusing on filtering key information and interpreting abstract concepts.
A scaffolded sequence for 12th-grade students that uses visual media to build inference and prediction skills, eventually transitioning from photography and film to complex text analysis.
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.
A structured ELA workshop sequence for 11th-grade academic support, focusing on the cognitive process of making inferences and predictions. Students move from visual analysis to complex text synthesis using the 'Evidence + Schema = Inference' equation.
A 9th-grade grammar and rhetoric unit focused on how adjectives and adverbs influence bias, connotation, and persuasion in media and non-fiction. Students move from understanding word nuance to analyzing news and advertising, culminating in writing a persuasive editorial.
A comprehensive graduate-level workshop series focused on transitioning from research topics to defensible academic contributions. Students will master thesis refinement, literature synthesis, counter-argument strengthening (steelmanning), and the oral defense of evidentiary choices.
This undergraduate sequence explores how universal themes are reinterpreted across historical and cultural contexts. Students analyze paired texts to understand how the zeitgeist of an era reshapes human archetypes and thematic construction.
This undergraduate-level sequence explores literary theme through the application of various critical theory lenses (Marxist, Feminist, and Post-Structuralist) using Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace' as a central text. Students move from understanding theory as a metaphoric lens to deconstructing the stability of meaning itself, culminating in a multi-perspectival portfolio.
A sequence for undergraduate students focusing on the structural and stylistic architecture of theme. Students progress from distinguishing basic subject matter to synthesizing motifs, character arcs, and atmosphere into sophisticated thematic arguments.
A comprehensive unit for undergraduate students on analogical reasoning and comparative argumentation. The sequence moves from the structural mechanics of analogies to their critical application in law, policy, and ethics, culminating in a moot court simulation focused on case precedent.
A deep dive into how rigid poetic forms—such as the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina—serve as architectural frameworks for complex emotional and logical arguments. Students analyze the tension between structural constraints and creative expansion in both classical and modern contexts.