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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom
   Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
   Students read sonnets, charting the poems' characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   From Friedan Forward—Considering a Feminist Perspective
   Students write letters expressing personal views on issues like equal pay, equal education/employment opportunity, and gender roles—and receive these letters six years later.
4. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Talking in Class: Using Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning
   The authors guide high school teachers in developing skills in promoting and facilitating authentic discussion in the English language arts classroom.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
   This landmark reference offers in-depth exploration of contemporary reading and literacy research.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 10
   The Statute of Anne, an influential copyright law, went into effect in 1710.
   Student groups do web research, compile their information, and make a booklet on copyright rules for the class to use as a reference.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
   Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play.