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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 23
   Avi was born in 1937.
   After reading Nothing But the Truth, students explore a current event topic and write their own short work of fiction in a similar multigenre format.
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community
   Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 5
   Walt Disney was born in 1901.
   Students describe female characters in Disney films, discuss their characteristics, and write a thesis statement about them.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
   Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.