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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 12
   Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
   Students learn about eyewitness reports through a lesson that is grade-level appropriate. Then, groups use primary source documents and research an event using eyewitness accounts.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
   Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 15
   Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
   After students have read one of Brian Jacques' Redwall stories, a class newspaper is created based on the story.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 6
   Celebrate Cynthia Rylant's birthday!
   Students work in small groups or as a class to map the plot of a selected Cynthia Rylant story and create original literary works using the plot diagrams.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 19
   Celebrate Juneteenth!
   Students use the Venn Diagram to compare Juneteenth celebrations to Fourth of July celebrations and hypothesize about the differences.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 1
   CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
   Students brainstorm a list of modern news sources and from previous centuries. Groups then research one of these sources and create a timeline showing the evolution of news.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 8
   Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
   After finding advertisements from the past, students evaluate them and discuss how ads have changed over the years. Students then create an advertisement for a new flavor of ice cream.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Confidence in Community Literacies: Bilingual Writers Reading the World
   In this Web seminar, join Steven Alvarez in considering how the strengths of after-school community programs—connecting with language-minoritized communities in ways that build relationships of trust, or confianza, between parents, extended families, and caring adults in neighborhoods—can inform our practices as teachers of English language learners.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Character Blogs
   Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 28
    Esther Forbes, author of Johnny Tremain, was born in 1891.
    Students explore the genre of historical fiction by writing original works and comparing all of the finished pieces.

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