A four-day introductory speech unit for 9th graders focusing on the communication process, topic selection, speech organization, and delivery techniques. Students move from foundational theory to practical application and peer feedback.
A year-long, 180-day curriculum of high-impact 6-minute daily ELA warm-ups designed for high school students. Structured into rotating weekly themes that target vocabulary, grammar, analytical writing, and rhetoric.
A scaffolded unit covering the major trials of Odysseus from the Epic Poem, tailored specifically for WIDA Level 1-2 ELL students.
A high-stakes, collaborative tabletop escape curriculum. Missions are self-contained and fun, targeting academic anxiety, family duty, digital literacy, and friendship & peer pressure (e.g. someone left out, group conflict escalating, friend pressured to do wrong). Recruits build decision-making, social intelligence, and value systems.
A rigorous high school unit exploring John Green's 'Everything is Tuberculosis', examining historical plague narratives, the biological science of the bacillus, medical ethics, global health policy, and the human side of patient advocacy.
A cohesive memoir unit exploring Walter Dean Myers' Bad Boy. Focusing on theme, identity development, and language scaffolding, this unit supports diverse learners through visually structured study guides and resources.
A unit focused on the universal experience of growing up, designed specifically for English Language Learners to build both thematic literary analysis skills and phonetic proficiency.
A unit exploring Just Mercy, focusing on the legal system, racial injustice, and restorative justice through literature.
A graphic-novel inspired study of Romeo and Juliet, focusing on character analysis and textual evidence through visual summaries and detective-style comprehension questions.
A five-day unit focused on NYS Next Gen ELA Standard 9-10R5, exploring how authors manipulate structure, time, and event ordering to create mystery, tension, and surprise. Students act as 'Story Architects' to deconstruct the blueprint of a mentor text.
A comprehensive two-week unit on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, focusing on vocabulary acquisition, analytical writing, and a final creative project. Students explore the themes of feud, fate, and tragic impulsivity through Act-by-Act study and structured prompts.
A comprehensive 5-day unit for Richard Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game,' focusing on characterization, plot dynamics, and evidence-based inference.
A 12-week comprehensive English I curriculum covering Literary Analysis through short stories and Expository Writing, aligned to Texas TEKS standards for Grade 9.
A comprehensive Regents preparation sequence for ELL students, covering exam structure, argumentative writing, and advanced reading strategies like inference and implicit meaning analysis.