This reading literature lesson covers how to analyze a theme in a literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the main events of the plot and the character’s conflict and resolution, if any. Finally, they analyze the development of the theme using textual evidence.

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This geometry lesson teaches students how to translate geometric figures. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will translate geometric figures. Students will also verify the properties of translated figures.  This lesson can be used with rulers and protractors or with geometric software.

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This expressions and equations lesson covers how to solve two-step equations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will isolate the term with the variable using inverse operations, and then solve for the variable. Finally, they will check and interpret the solution.

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This physical science lesson focuses on describing the Law of Conservation of Matter. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a balanced chemical reaction and draw a molecular model for the reactants and the products. Then, students count and write the number of atoms for the reactants and the products. Finally, students read passages and complete a graphic organizer, as well as explaining why a chemical reaction does or does not obey the Laws of Conservation of Matter. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages for Independent Practice and review modeled after current adaptive testing items.

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This language lesson asks students to interpret euphemism and oxymorons. In this lesson, students will read a passage with key words underlined. Then, they will identify whether the word is an euphemism or oxymoron and interpret its meaning. According to The Internet TSEL Journal, speakers of English use euphemisms to express many everyday realities, and have to decode them daily at work and in the media. Fluency in English requires the understanding of euphemisms, yet they are largely untaught. This lesson addresses that need.

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This creating equations lesson teaches students how to solve exponential equations in one variable. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will create and solve exponential equations to solve problems involving exponential growth or decay.

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This high school world history lesson has students analyze the causes of the Cold War, starting with the Russian Revolution and going through World War II and the aftermath. This lesson also includes Access Common Core assignments to better align to the Common Core Literacy in History/Social Studies components of the CCSS.

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