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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
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   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry
   To understand the historical background that influenced Maya Angelou's poems, students research events to produce trading cards using the ReadWriteThink Trading Card App or Trading Card Student Interactive. Through the sharing of these trading cards, students understand the historical background as they analyze Angelou's poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But the Truth
   Students read Avi's Nothing But the Truth and examine the First Amendment and student rights, and then decide whether the rights of the novel's protagonist, Philip, are violated.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
   Students read and discuss a selection of poems from Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming to explore varying views on the process of desegregation in America.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action
   Students explore the effects of stereotypes by analyzing children's books. Then they create bookmarks that encourage readers to question the assumptions of stereotyped books and to seek out matching, balanced texts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
   Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online Writing
   Anne Frank shared her experiences through a private diary that became public as a book. In this lesson, students will consider how writing creates social identities as they blog about a political issue.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in Night
    Images have power—they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.