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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
   Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
3. 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.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Island of the Blue Dolphins through a Literary Lens
   After a discussion about courage and adversity and reading Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, students examine Karana's character development and look for examples of courage in their community.