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An interactive micro-learning deck teaching how early human societies developed agriculture and domesticated animals, with reading comprehension and vocabulary practice.
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An interactive micro-learning deck teaching how early human societies developed agriculture and domesticated animals, with reading comprehension and vocabulary practice.
Digital micro-lesson teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and summarizing skills through the fable The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg.
A social-studies reading comprehension slide deck teaching the history of Cup Noodles/ramen through a video lesson, illustrated reading passage with audio, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
A digital micro-learning slide deck building reading comprehension, vocabulary, and summarizing skills through an informational text about a chocolate fountain caterer.
An interactive digital slide deck ('micro-learning deck') teaching about the Everglades ecosystem through video, an audio-narrated reading passage, vocabulary practice, and a guided summary-writing activity.
An interactive PowerPoint micro-learning deck teaching about the popularity and history of emojis through a reading passage, vocabulary, main idea/details practice, and comprehension activities.
An interactive PowerPoint reading-comprehension activity: students read a short passage about artificial intelligence in schools, then answer 10 multiple-choice questions with click-through correct/wrong answer feedback.
An interactive micro-learning slide deck built around an informational reading passage about Pakistani-American chef Fatima Ali, teaching close reading, vocabulary, and summarizing skills.
A no-prep, digital interactive slide-deck lesson on the history of Hot Wheels toy cars, combining a reading passage, close reading, vocabulary, a cloze ('What's Missing') activity, and a quick-write.
An informational-text reading comprehension micro-lesson (interactive slide deck) about the job of being a sports mascot, built around a reading passage, vocabulary, and main-idea/summarizing skills.
An interactive social-studies slideshow lesson teaching 9th-grade-level students about influential African Americans through informational reading passages, close reading, and a quick write.
Micro-learning reading comprehension deck built around a short original fictional story ('3 Leprechauns') to teach main idea, true/false discrimination, close reading, vocabulary, and summarizing.
A micro-learning slide deck teaching the figurative-language idiom "a bitter pill to swallow" through a video lesson, an illustrated reading passage with audio, and comprehension/quick-write activities.
An A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level, Post-2000 Poetry unit) English Literature lesson analyzing 'An Easy Passage' by Julia Copus, focusing on gender expectations and the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
An A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level, Post-2000 Poetry unit) English Literature lesson analyzing 'Eat Me' by Patience Agbabi, which addresses domestic/spousal abuse and gender power dynamics through the story of a husband who force-feeds his wife.
An A Level (Edexcel International Advanced English Literature) lesson analyzing the sonnet 'Grief' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, covering the poet's biography and the poem's exploration of grief and bereavement.
An A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level, Post-2000 Poetry unit) English Literature lesson analyzing 'Inheritance' by Eavan Boland, exploring what parents pass down to children (materially and intangibly, e.g. motherhood).
An A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level, Post-2000 Poetry unit) English Literature lesson analyzing 'Material' by Ross Barber, a nostalgic poem centered on the symbolism of a mother's handkerchief and vanished mid-20th-century domestic life.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Leontia Flynn's poem 'The Furthest Distances I've Travelled'.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Vicki Feaver's poem 'The Gun'.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Ian Duhig's poem 'The Lammas Hireling'.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'The Map Woman'.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Ciaran Carson's poem sequence 'The War Correspondent' (Gallipoli/Balaklava), including its Crimean War and WWI Gallipoli campaign historical context.
A slideshow lesson guiding A Level (Pearson Edexcel International Advanced Level English Literature, Post-2000 Poetry unit) students through close reading and analysis of Helen Dunmore's poem 'To My Nine-Year-Old Self'.