Students will read nouns and match them with appositive phrases, and then write sentences using the matched noun and appositive phrase. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and locate the appositives and nouns they are modifying. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and write them by combining them using appositives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and write them to contain appositives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read an explanation and examples of how to use the ellipsis when writing. Students will then read sentences and rewrite them by using an ellipsis. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences to identify appositives and write the sentences without the appositives to confirm their identification. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences, determine the appositive phrases, and write the sentences using correct punctuation. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read an explanation and example of how to use an ellipsis. Students will then read a passage from a speech by President Kennedy and will then write two sentences from the speech and include the ellipsis appropriately. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read an explanation and examples of how to use an ellipsis to show a pause. Students will then read and rewrite sentences to include an ellipsis. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description of how commas are used, and then read directions in order to write sentences using commas. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In response to Harriet Tubman’s request for a letter of commendation, Fredrick Douglas wrote a testimony of her character, hard work, and sacrifices for the sake of freedom from bondage while marking the differences in their leadership styles for the common cause. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

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.

Using the supernatural powers of The Monkey's Paw, the Whites make a wish for money, receive the money after their son is involved in a fatal accident, wish for his return, and finally wish for his disappearance. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In Mrs. Flowers, an excerpt from the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the author, Maya Angelou, describes a significant experience with a respected person in her community, Mrs. Flowers, who changes her life. Through their interactions, Maya Angelou learns the power of language (spoken and written) and relationships to transform lives. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

What should a good narrative contain? For this lesson, a mystery, a type of narrative realistic fiction, will be composed. Since strong adjectives and adverbs will support a mystery, they will be incorporated into the writing.

The poem describes the victorious homecoming of a ship. The Captain responsible for the safe return of his ship and crew has died before reaching port, and the narrator is grief stricken at the loss. While acknowledging the greatness of the victorious return of the ship to port, the poem also laments the loss of the leader responsible. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students review and practice the basic parts of speech by creating and entering their own stories on a website or by sharing their stories with a friend.

In this speech, Rudolfo Anaya celebrates the purchase of the 1 millionth library volume by the University of New Mexico. He begins by describing how as a child on summer evenings he sat under the stars and listened to the stories of los viejitos, the old ones. For Anaya the million volumes in the university’s library represent freedom because preserving access to ideas leads to the preservation and ultimately the regeneration of our cultural ideals. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

The sonnet begins with the speaker stating that the earth’s poetry never dies. In summer, the grasshopper runs among the hedgerows singing his song and then rests in the shade. In the frosty silence of winter, the earth's poetry continues now the cricket, singing from the stove, shrills a song that's as warm and summery as the grasshopper's music. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.