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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
   Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
   Students work in small groups to examine Margaret Atwood's use of and observations about language in The Handmaid's Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   "Roused by the Change of Scene": Analyzing a Film Adaptation of Jane Eyre
   As part of their study of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, students read selected sections of the novel closely and compare their representation in the text to representations in the 2007 Masterpiece adaptation of Jane Eyre. They use the concepts of time/pacing, character, and theme to focus their analysis and to plan an adaptation of a scene of their choice.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Comic Book Show and Tell
   Students craft comic scripts using clear, descriptive, and detailed writing that shows (illustrates) and tells (directs). After peers create an artistic interpretation of the script, students revise their original scripts.