Communications & media
Active Listening and Scoring a Speech with a Rubric
Students practice active listening on an original speech excerpt, then score two excerpts with a rubric and write kind, specific feedback.
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English language arts
Any Novel: Character Map and Evidence Chart
Students build a character profile and relationship chart for a main character in any novel they are reading, with evidence from the text.
Arts
Character Analysis: What Do Actions Reveal About Imani?
Students read an original backstage scene and use the character’s words, actions and stage directions as evidence to analyze her traits and motivation.
Communications & media
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning and Rebuttal
Students learn claim, evidence, reasoning and rebuttal on a lunch-period topic, spot four common fallacies, and write their own rebuttal and an argument for the other side.
English language arts
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: A Timed Argument Paragraph
Students read made-up survey results, identify claims, evidence and reasoning, then write a timed argument paragraph about a school break.
English language arts
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Should the First Bell Ring Later?
Students read an original argument text about school start times, sort statements into claim, evidence and reasoning, and write their own CER paragraph.
English language arts
Cover Letter Paragraph: Match Your Skills to the Job
Students study a made-up job posting and applicant, fix a weak cover-letter paragraph and write the opening, body and closing of a short cover letter.
Science
Evidence for Evolution: Bones, Fossils and DNA Differences
Students sort evidence for evolution into types, interpret a made-up DNA-difference table to rank how closely related animals are, and explain homologous and vestigial structures.
English language arts
How Bats Find Their Way in the Dark: Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Students read an original science article about echolocation and answer questions on main idea, evidence and cause and effect.
Technology & computer science
Is This Source Reliable? Judge Three Sample Websites
Students compare written descriptions of three fictional websites using author, evidence, date and purpose, and decide which are reliable.
Science
Lab Report Practice: How Does Drop Height Affect Bounce?
Students analyze provided ball-drop data: identify variables, write a hypothesis, calculate means, sketch a line graph and write a claim-evidence-reasoning conclusion.
English language arts
Mapping a Character Arc: From Flaw to Change
Students read a short original story, map how the main character changes in three stages, and then plan an arc for a character they know.