In this final lesson of the unit and module, students will turn in their final performance task and celebrate and reflect on their work.

In this lesson, students complete the final section of their Researcher’s Notebook, in which they formulate a plan of action based on their research findings.

This lesson runs as a workshop lesson and students work on finalizing their brochures.

This lesson opens with a mini lesson of your choosing that addresses a struggle or challenge you’ve noticed multiple students or pairs having. Following the mini lesson, students are given a solid chunk of time to work with their partners on the final draft of their Ad Analysis.

This lesson opens with a mini lesson on effective layout and design propelled by an entry task.

In this final lesson of the unit and module, students will turn in their final performance task. Students then write book reviews for their independent reading books.

In this lesson, students start their End of Unit 2 Assessment. Before they begin writing, they will re- familiarize themselves with the rubric and use it to assess the Model Essay: “Telling the Truth about Slavery.”

In this lesson, students finish their End of Unit 2 Assessments. They should especially apply their work with sentence structure to this essay. Also in this lesson, students participate in an independent reading check-in. Use whichever routine you have established with your class for these check-ins.

Featuring the India Arie song "I Am Not My Hair," this lesson takes students through the pre-writing, production, and editing phases of an informative essay.

This lesson provides an opportunity for students to not only read and view the importance of choosing career choices now, but gives them an opportunity to write about their future career goals and think about the best way to achieve them starting now.

In this lesson, students test a variety of insulators and relate their knowledge to energy conservation. With teacher guidance, students design their own investigation. After all experiments are completed, the class looks across the data and draws evidence-based conclusions.

Assess students' understanding of scientific inquiry including the following skills: observation, background research, scientific procedures (including investigation design, measurement techniques, and error analysis), data collection, data display, scientific questions, formulating an hypothesis. Students will design and carry out an investigation to test which material is the best insulator; they will predict which way heat energy will flow in a system and analyze the flow of energy in a system from one point to another and from one form to another.

Students will work collaboratively to gather information about various groups of gelatinous zooplankton. They will be able to compare and contrast at least three different groups of zooplankton organisms and describe how gelatinous zooplankton fit into marine food webs. Groups will prepare a brief written report summarizing the information they have found and orally present to the rest of the class.

Students will explore the personalities of the Revolutionary War's Patriots and Loyalists by participating in a character role play. The lesson will culminate with students researching and writing a character sketch of a key Revolutionary figure of their choice and participating in a Colonial Town Hall & Debate.

In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.

The emphasis of this lesson is on history and research rather than literature, selections from Jack London's The Call of the Wild are used to provide focus and structure for students' research in online databases of primary sources, and to serve as models of vivid narrative prose for students' own stories.

Students will compose a thank you note using the following RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) model.

In this lesson, students will dissect a Times column about the leadership styles of former Vice President (and Nobel Laureate) Al Gore and President George W. Bush and then write their own opinion editorial on presidential leadership.

This lesson is one part of a four lesson unit on Shakespeare Stealer. This theater and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative and interpretive opportunities. Students will analyze and compare the puns and word play in selected scenes from the plays, The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Students will then read scenes from each play in groups and interpret their meanings to prepare for a performance of the scene. The lesson culminates with students writing a short essay explaining how the playwrights used puns and word play to give their characters wit.

The students will read and reread the passage closely, and focusing their reading through either a series of questions and discussion about the text or the structured journal approach outlined here, students will come away with a working knowledge of the digestive system, its parts, and how they function together.