World languages
Le passé composé: Introduction with Avoir
Students build the passé composé with avoir, form past participles of -er and a few irregular verbs, translate short sentences, and find errors in sample work.
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Mathematics
Literal Equations: Solving Formulas for Any Variable
Students rearrange familiar formulas to isolate a chosen variable, apply them to real numbers, and match formulas to their rearranged forms.
English language arts
Louis Braille and the Six-Dot Code: Sequence and Cause and Effect
Students read an original informational text about the invention of braille, build a timeline, and match causes to effects.
World languages
Más, Menos, Tan... Como: Comparing People
Students use a data table about four teens to judge true/false comparisons and complete and write Spanish comparisons with más, menos, tan and como.
English language arts
MLA Basics in Plain English: Format, In-Text Citations and Works Cited
Students learn the basics of MLA paper format, practice in-text citations, and build two Works Cited entries from made-up source information.
Arts
Music and Emotion: A Listening Journal from Memory
Students recall a piece of music they know well and write a journal analyzing tempo, dynamics, tone color, texture and form, and how those choices shape mood.
Career & technical ed.
Parliamentary Procedure: Read the Meeting Script
Students read a short FFA chapter meeting script aloud in roles, put meeting steps in order, answer questions about motions and voting, and write their own motion.
Study skills & advisory
Parts of a Book: Book Detective
Students use sample book pages (title page, copyright page, table of contents, glossary and index) to answer questions and learn what each part of a book is for.
Social studies
Physical and Human Geography: Features, Resources and Regions
Students sort features into physical and human geography, classify natural resources, and identify three types of regions.
English language arts
Poetry Forms: Haiku, Acrostic and Free Verse
Students learn three poetry forms from original examples, count syllables, and write one haiku, one acrostic and one free verse poem.
Mathematics
Pythagorean Theorem: Find the Missing Side
Students find missing sides of right triangles, test whether side lengths make a right triangle, solve ladder and screen problems and fix common mistakes.
World languages
Regular -ar Verbs: Build and Conjugate
Students conjugate regular -ar verbs in a chart, complete sentences, identify correct forms, build sentences from a word bank and translate two sentences.