In this lesson, students will read "Serfs and Sweetness" and "The Sugar Genius" and continue to explore how sugar production has affected the need for human labor as well as slave trade.

In this lesson, students will continue to read "Hope, Despair, and Memory," focusing on how Weisel develops his central ideas of memory, suffering, and solidarity by showing present-day examples of injustice and suggesting steps toward combating these issues.

In this lesson on Kate Chopin's The Awakening, students will consider how Chopin introduces the characters and their interactions.

In this lesson on Romeo and Juliet, students will read Act. 5.3, lines 139-170, in which Juliet learns what has happened, and commits suicide with Romeo's dagger. Students will explore the central idea of fate and then discuss the question: "Who or what is responsible for Juliet's death?"

In this lesson, students will examine how Wiesel constructs a compelling argument in "Hope, Despair, and Memory" through claims, counterclaims, evidence, and reasoning.

In this lesson, students will continue to read Wiesel's "Hope, Despair, and Memory," focusing on central ideas and how to plan for writing about the text.

In this lesson, students will read and analyze a portion of Wiesel's "Hope, Despair, and Memory," focusing on how he uses rhetoric to advance his purpose.

In this lesson, students will listen to a recording of "An Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton" and focus on how her word choice helps establish her purpose.

In this lesson, based on the first section of Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," students will focus on how Russell uses specific word choices to evoke a sense of place.

In this lesson, students will learn how to use precise language in order to provide a vivid picture of experiences, events, settings, and characters in their narrative writing.

In this lesson, students will use precise words and phrases in order to help develop word choice in their narrative.

In this lesson, students will learn how to incorporate precise and specific words to improve their arguments.

In this lesson, students will work to carefully consider word choice, using a dictionary and thesaurus as necessary.

In this lesson, students learn to use precise words by using dictionaries and thesauruses to help them accurately communicate complex ideas.

In this End of Unit Assessment, students will write an essay to the following prompt: Select either Romeo or Juliet. How does Shakespeare develop this character as a tragic hero?

In this lesson, students will use the model essay and the "Are We Medieval? Forming Evidence Based claims graphic organizer in compose their body paragraphs and adjust their language usage.

In this lesson, student will focus on using various techniques to sequence events so that they build toward a particular outcome.

In this lesson based on St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students will write an objective summary and work in small groups to analyze the way the author develops the central ideas.

In this lesson, students will read chapters XXXIII-XXXIV of The Awakening, focusing on how Robert's return impacts Edna's character development.