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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  February 21
Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
Using lines from Bombeck's newspaper column, students identify allusive or satirical humor. Older students can rewrite the passages for a different audience. - Classroom Resources | Grades 7 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  February 10
The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."
After discussing newspapers and their different points of view, students choose a current event, read editorials on the event, and share them with the class to identify the editor's point of view.