Comprehension is Comprehensive
Students working in our CORE Literature and Writing Discovery Guides will, each week, respond to “comprehension” questions that chronologically review the plot points from the week’s reading. But here, “comprehension” is an exercise that both draws students deeper into the heart…
Treasure Trove of Words
Exploring vocabulary is so much more than an activity to check off the list! Words are the building blocks of language, are what we humans use to communicate our ideas, and each one holds certain specificity. Specificity is a pairing…
Introducing Intermediate Composition
WE ARE HAPPY TO WELCOME TWO BRAND NEW UNITS: Intermediate Composition: Little Worlds This intermediate unit is developed to teach high school students how to translate a BIG idea tied to a little story into an essay. Over the course…
Person, Place, Thing: Writing Beyond the Noun
WE ARE HAPPY TO WELCOME OUR BRAND NEW UNIT: Advanced Composition: Person, Place Thing as Long Form Research Our unique scaffolding guides 11th and 12th grade students over the course of 30 weeks, each step of the way, in the…
Jumpstart Essay Writing with Pages Online!
Using Blackbird & Company composition units? Enroll now to jumpstart fall learning! We are delighted to announce the following five classes to support students as they prepare to dive deep into the art of essay writing. We’ve something fun planned…
Earlybird Introduction to Animals
WE ARE HAPPY TO WELCOME OUR BRAND NEW UNIT: Earlybird Introduction to Animals! There are two types of things in the world: living and non-living! Everything you can imagine is one or the other. Taxonomy is the science of sorting…
Arts Discovery, Pages Online
Like learning phonics and grammar and punctuation and rhetoric, artists too have tools that enable them to bring shape to an idea so that a “reader” might engage and be inspired by that idea. Color is one of the important…
Music Discovery, Pages Online
Each day a boy named Peter opens a gate and wanders into a familiar meadow and so the story begins thanks to Sergei Prokofiev. Music, like fiction always exists in the present tense. HEAR FROM MUSIC DISCOVERY TEACHER, MR.…
Pages Enrollment is OPEN!
We hope your summer has been filled with joy and opportunities for continuous learning. We are thrilled to announce that registration is now live for our highly anticipated online workshops! At Blackbird & Company, we understand the importance of providing…
Meet Ms. Clare
I’ve been writing this summer about our amazing Pages staff and the classes they are teaching. I’m truly honored to be a part of such a great team. Some of you may have wondered, but what about you? Don’t…