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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Accountable Book Clubs: Focused Discussions
   Students form literature circles, read Esperanza Rising or Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan, use a Critical Thinking Map to discuss social issues, and use a class wiki.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry
   Students explore the idea of "crossing boundaries" through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
   Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
   Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Using Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
   Students analyze the concepts of identity, stereotyping, and discrimination by reading picture books; identify how these concepts are dealt with in each book; and discuss concrete actions to stop discrimination.