Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 12 links to instructional videos or texts • Definitions of key terms, such as interpretation and source text • Examples of how to analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text • An excerpt from "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare • "This Is My Letter To The World" by Emily Dickinson • An excerpt from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities

Students explore standard L.9-10.4.B with this playlist. They will identify patterns of word changes that indicate different meanings or parts of speech. Students determine how to change word forms to indicate a specific meaning. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as root and suffix • Examples of common suffixes and their meanings • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard L.11-12.2.A with this playlist. They will identify the conventions of hyphenation. Students will practice applying the rules of hyphenation to a variety of examples. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Examples of how to use hyphens • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as idiom and personification • Examples of different types of figures of speech • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional information about figurative language in poetry • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 6 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as absolute-value function and piecewise-defined function • Visual examples of functions represented as graphs • Exercises that allow students to practice graphing square root and cube root functions and piecewise-defined and step functions from their equations • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as incorrectly graphing piecewise-defined functions • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities on certain parts of the standard, such as graphing polynomials

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos or texts • 6 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as connotation and word choice • Examples of how to use "Would I rather...." questions to figure out the strength of a word's connotation • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 6 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions, one sorting question, and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as gerunds and participles • Examples of how gerunds, participles, and infinitives function in sentences • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional resources if your students confuse verbals with verb tenses • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 4 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as rhetorical triangle and style • Examples of how to look beyond the overall purpose and targeted audience and achieve a deeper understanding of the rhetorical situation • "A History of Art for Beginners and Students" by Clara Erskine Clement • "Declaration of Sentiments" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage • "Gettysburg Address" by President Abraham Lincoln • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Students explore standard RL.11-12.6 with this playlist. They will analyze and interpret styles of writer’s craft in conveying point of view, including sarcasm, satire, irony, and understatement. Students will determine the literal and figurative meaning of words or expressions. Students also have the option to view instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 6 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as explicit or implicit • An excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift • An excerpt from "Vanity Fair (1847)" by William Makepeace Thackeray • An excerpt from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving • An excerpt from "Three Musketeers " by Alexandre Dumas • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Students explore standard L.6.3.A with this playlist. They will identify when sentence patterns should be varied. Students will take steps to vary sentence patterns to improve meaning, reader interest, and style. Students also have the option to watch instructional videos and complete practice quizzes or activities. This product includes: • 1 link to instructional videos, audio, or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions and one matching question • Definitions of key terms, such as conjunction and clause • Examples of how to vary sentence patterns to create more interesting writing • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities on certain parts of the standard, such as point of view through comparison • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as pronoun and antecedent • Examples of how to recognize and correct vague pronouns • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 3 links to instructional videos or texts • 2 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes five multiple choice questions • Definitions of key terms, such as third-person pronoun and possessive pronoun • Charts of pronouns in different cases, numbers, and person • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Our playlists are “no prep” Common Core aligned lessons designed for small group work, homework, remediation, or extension around a single standard. This content-rich multimedia lesson integrates original instruction with web-based resources to guide students through the rigors of the aligned standard. This product includes: • 2 links to instructional videos or texts • 3 links to practice quizzes or activities • 1 assessment that includes three multiple choice questions, one fill-in-the-blank question, and one correct/incorrect question • Definitions of key terms, such as antecedent and reflexive pronoun • Examples of reflexive and intensive pronouns differing depending on person and number • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • Additional activities to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional practice quizzes or activities • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.9-10.6 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry • An excerpt from "Harriet: The Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.8.9 with this quiz. Students answer three questions that test their ability to analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • "1300 Perish in Wreck of the Titanic" by The San Francisco Call • "Liner Titanic Wrecked by Iceberg Passengers Transferred to Other Vessels in Mid Ocean" by Unknown (article from The Day Book) • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RI.7.7 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject. This product includes: • 4 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • An excerpt from "Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day" by President Ronald Reagan • An excerpt from "Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches" by President Barack Obama • An excerpt from "The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln" by Wayne Whipple • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Our quizzes are brief, formative diagnostic tools designed to test mastery and identify misconceptions a student has around a single Common Core standard. Assess your students' ability to trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not with this quiz. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • "Sun Safety: Save Your Skin!" by the FDA • "Wildlife Photography" by Wisewire • "Zoo Meals" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.7.7 with this quiz.Students answer four questions that test their ability to compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version and to analyze the effects of techniques unique to each medium. This product includes: • 3 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Ozymandias " by Percy Bysshe Shelley • An excerpt from "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Our quizzes are brief, formative diagnostic tools designed to test mastery and identify misconceptions a student has around a single Common Core standard. Assess your students' ability to integrate information presented in different media or formats as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue with this quiz. This product includes: • 2 multiple choice questions • 1 sorting question • "Food Serving Sizes Getting a Reality Check" by the FDA • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Assess student understanding of standard RL.8.2 with this quiz. Students answer five questions that test their ability to determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text and to provide an objective summary of the text. This product includes: • 5 multiple choice questions • An excerpt from "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand • "Free or Fugitive?" by Wisewire • An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels