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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 11
   Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935.
   Students explore the definition of a hero and use the interactive Venn diagram to identify the most common characteristics of a hero.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
   Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 22
   Celebrate the 100th day of school!
   As a class, students work in small groups to create a "100th Day" book.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
   By looking at advertising and mass media critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
   By critically analyzing popular television programs, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
   Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 23
   Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the US to earn a MD degree in 1849.
   "Famous Firsts" are researched by students, followed by small group research and multimedia presentations to report research results.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Minilesson on Semicolons
   Students analyze stylistic choices and grammar use in authentic writing, focusing on the use of the semicolon in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
   History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 24
    Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
    Students read letters from the Gold Rush and follow up by writing an imaginary letter to a family member about their experience using the Letter Generator.

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