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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   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing Electronic and Print Texts About the Civil War Soldier
   Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 2
   David Macaulay was born in 1946.
   Students use the Multigenre Mapper interactive to explore Macaulay's use of multiple genres by composing original multigenre texts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 3
   Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
   Students talk about the causes of heart disease and the role that diet and exercise play. Then, students find healthy dessert recipes and vote on one dessert to make in class.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
   It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
   Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.
   
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
   Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem.
10. 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.

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