Starting with Monarch Lessons - Our Foundation:

Make a copy! Start using your evidence collector today! Here's what you need to track your evidence while reading! 

Video Lesson - Instructor, Dr. Jen Lowry

Don't stress over how to start out  your thoughts on paper! Use sentence frames to help you cite textual evidence. This is the easy way! 

Make a copy! Start using these sentence frames today when writing. 

Copy this graphic organizer to help you cite evidence. 

Watch this lesson on how to cite textual evidence, the types of evidence you may find in literature and informational texts, and why it matters. 

Make a copy and learn how to find theme the easy way using our Monarch strategy - CAST. We've created this strategy just for you. It's what you need to discover the themes emerging, developing, and refining as the story develops. 

In this video lesson, Dr. Jen shares the author secrets you need to know how to discover the themes in any novel! Watch and practice on your next favorite Monarch book. 

Google Slide Presentation

Make a copy. Start connecting a song to your favorite Monarch novel today. 

Copy this Google Slide and get ready to analyze your favorite Monarch character. Present your findings. 

Copy this Google Slide and compare/contrast two characters in your favorite Monarch novel. 

Make a copy! Show your smarts by using this sheet to practice combining 9-10.2 and RL.9-10.3! 

Make a copy of this Google Doc. Learn how to identify the internal and external conflict that characters face in your favorite Monarch novel. 

Copy this Google Doc and begin to track how word choice matters with your favorite Monarch novel. 

Click here for your poster! 

Use these four research-based strategies to help you advance your vocabulary while reading. A cool trick is to mark a word if it has a positive or negative connotation when you are learning new words. This can help you categorize words, show shifts in meaning, and learn more about tone. 

Watch this video lesson to support your learning when you are analyzing poetry as part of your text set for your favorite Monarch novel. 

Google Slide Presentation Link 

Copy this Google Doc and learn how to identify a character's point of view in a novel but also learn how to track switches in POV.

Dr. Jen Lowry shares questions to consider when learning about perspective and point of view during novel studies and text set integration. 

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/WjQWv-88DeQ 

Google Slide Presentation Link.

Make a copy of this Google Doc and begin tracking perspectives found in a novel! 

Copy this Google Drawing and start learning your vocabulary words the easy way! It's easy as PIE! https://docs.google.com/drawings/u/1/d/1jEV_K98RlH0Wrm0PA1xCllS4xxdgURH9DPa0XuB-UXM/copy 

Dr. Jen Lowry shares an easy way to learn new vocabulary words and questions to consider when reading Monarch novels and text set integration. 

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/xbPuL2vy3t4

Google Slide Presentation Link.

Click here for the poster! 

Use these four research-based strategies to help you advance your vocabulary while reading. A cool trick is to mark a word if it has a positive or negative connotation when you are learning new words. This can help you categorize words, show shifts in meaning, and learn more about tone. 

Make a copy and hold your socratic seminar the easy way. 

Copy this rubric and self-assessment when conducting a socratic seminar. 

Copy this graphic organizer to help plan your next debate. 

Copy this Google Doc and learn how to write an essay the easy way. 

Copy this Google Slide and learn how to effectively use research. 

Copy this Google Slide and learn how to use the ACES strategy to support your writing. 

Copy and paste this ACES sentence frame support document to help you write an effective paragraph. It also has a rubric to help you check your proficiency.