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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 15
   Bill of Rights Day is observed.
   Students identify a students' rights issue and explore the ways in which the Bill of Rights does protect and does not protect students.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
   History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
   Students explore the idea of "different Englishes" by reading Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and writing literacy narratives about their own use of different language for different audiences and purposes.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
   Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 16
   The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
   Students create a political cartoon for the Boston Tea Party and use the interactive Comic Creator to publish them.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
   Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
    After discussing the poem "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur, students analyze their own writing habits and create an extended metaphor describing themselves as writers.