In this fourth unit of eight total, Think Alouds (pages 27-33 of the pdf), students will apply skills to investigate and understand text.

This video elaborates on pronoun case usage, especially focusing on the tricky who vs. whom issue in the English language.

This video reviews the case system and examines how to determine which pronoun is appropriate in certain contexts.

This lesson reviews the sentence types, then has students write sentences of a variety of structures in a paragraph and review what they write.

This video defines and demonstrates the use of indirect objects and objective complements.

This video examines the definition and use of infinitive phrases, including how they function as parts of sentences.

Worksheets and lessons on the correct use of interjections for various reading levels.

Students begin by evaluating the universal theme of betrayal from multiple perspectives. After reading time period scenarios as well as reflecting on personal experiences, students use critical thinking skills to explore and identify interventions for each betrayal scenario, including personal examples. Students then research Roman history as they write down thier own critical perspective of a scenario depicting plausible scenes from Roman times. As the culminating project and assessment, students will create comic strips with the Interactive Comic Creator

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from "Julius Caesar," eight text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

Students discuss and examine the differences between electronic communication such as texts and emails versus more "traditional" means of writing. There is also a discussion on audience and puropse when writing, and students will practice writing a "style guide" page in order to reinforce conventions of standard English.

"To Build a Fire" is an excellent example of American literary naturalism. In this multi-day lesson students will perfrom close-reading analyses of this classic short story as they study the use of point of view to create a narrative. Students will also debate the distinction between knowledge and instinct using textual evidence.

Students will read a description and examples of how to use dependent clauses. Students will then read sentences and write them in order to change the position of the dependent clauses. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description and samples of places to position prepositional phrases in sentences. Students will then read sentences and rewrite them in order to place the prepositional phrase in a different location. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This lesson introduces students to the blues, one of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual tour of Memphis, TN and explore the history of the blues in the work of W.C. Handy and a variety of country blues singers whose music preserves the folk origins of this unique American art form. The lesson concludes with students composing their own blues lyrics.

This lesson plan is designed to guide students through a reading of the classic short story, "The Lady or the Tiger?". The lesson provides a guide for an in depth analysis of the text by asking students to seek textual evidence to respond to the provided guided questions. A culminating activity is provided, which directs learners to draft an essay that builds upon that textual evidence to draft a response posed by the title's question.

In this lesson, students learn the details about when and how to use semicolons, then practice the skills on sentence strips.

This lesson details methods for teaching students about complex sentences. Students examine the types of sentences, then practice combining elements into a complex sentence.

In this lesson, students refresh their understanding of the parts of speech before completing a fun activity to reinforce their knowledge. Students make wante posters of themselves using exciting adjectives to describe themselves.

In this lesson on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students will analyze the entire text, focusing on Poe's choices concerning text structure, time, and order of events.

In this second part of a two-lesson Mid-Unit Assessment, students will review a classmates's written response using a Text Analysis Rubric. Afterward, students will review their own evaluation and use this info to revise their writing.