Students will create a personal narraitve by generating ideas for writing from their personal experiences, write details of their experience in an organized manner, and revise their draft to add details. They can then present their story in a variety of ways. 

Students will explore the difference between wants and needs as they decide what they will be taking to Grandma's house.

In this lesson, students analyze the allusions, slang, and literary analogies used in "Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara. To extend understanding, they will then write their own allusions and analogies.

This lesson plan was made as a summative assessment after reading the American novel, Of Mice and Men. It is essential that students have read the novel and have access to either an iPhone, iPad, or Mac Computer for completion of this project via the Pages App. Students are often disappointed and frustrated with the ending of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, feeling that there are many other solutions to the problems of the characters. They are not alone; thousands of readers have also pled the same case. Well now, they have their chance to rewrite the ending and give George and Lennie the resolutions they think they deserve. For this assignment, they are to rewrite the final chapter using the Pages App via iPhone or iPad. "… of Mice And Men …" by bjornmeansbear is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.

In this lesson, students will research the physical characteristics, adaptations, and habitat of an animal and share their findings through a question-and-answer (interview) session with the animal that will be presented using a PowerPoint presentation.  Following their research, students will write a script they will use to narrate their presentation.  Images, text, animation/transition of slides will be evaluated along with the content and the writing mechanics.  This is a face-to-face format but could be virtual/distance learning.

This lesson extends over several class periods. Students analyze the claim, grounds, warrants, qualifiers and counterclaims in three articles about the American Dream. Students conduct research and find two additional articles about the American Dream. Students then analyze the argument in those articles. Finally, students write their own argument essay about the current state of the American Dream.

A great virtual plan for students to learn more about the events and people that lead to the American Revolution.

Students would learn in the shoes and place of the American Revolution as well asking themselves questions of what is in place. The image is created by Jasmine Hall through Canva. 

In this American Symbols unit, students will learn information about American symbols. Students will learn about various American Symbols such as the American Flag, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Bald Eagle, and the White House. Students should then be able to draw a picture and write one fact about an American symbol. American Flag © 2024 by LeAnn Schmidt is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

This lesson is a culmination assessment of the things they have learned in social studies to analyze the ways cultures use, maintian, and preserve the physical enviornment. Identify ways people use their physical enviornment, compare changes in natural resources over time, describe ways to preserve and protect natural resources, compare perspectives of various communities toward their natural enviornment, and make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the natural enviornment.

This lesson is a lesson designed for IB Visual Art Students in preparation for the Comparative Study Project. This lesson goes over The Formal Elements of Art and how to conduct a formal analysis of artwork. This goal of this lesson is for students to be able to formally analyze artwork using art vocabulary and the formal elements of art.  NOTE: This lesson is intended to be completed using the app Keynote from Apple, but can be also used in conjunction with Google Slides if Keynote is not available. 

Students use the Informational Text Analysis Tool to deconstruct the essential elements of informational text.

Students individually consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They write about their conclusions and explain the evidence used to make that determination.

Students will understand how ancient civilzations developed based on the local physical features and how the boundaries of early civilizations compare to their modern counterparts.

Students will learn about the importance and impact of immigration to the building of the United States of America.

This lesson plan was created to introduce Angles and Equations for 7th-grade math.

This lesson is about animal adaptations. Students will learn about adaptaions of different animals through discussion and group work. Utlimately, students will be able to write a paragraph descrbing the adaptations of an animal of their choice.  Image Created by: Stephanie WoodPhoto Taken by: Stephanie Wood