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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 19
   Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.
   Students listen to a news article about the LA race riots and then read Smoky Night to discuss how a younger observer might be affected by these events and their perceptions.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 9
   Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
   Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 23
   Avi was born in 1937.
   After reading Nothing But the Truth, students explore a current event topic and write their own short work of fiction in a similar multigenre format.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 2
   David Macaulay was born in 1946.
   Students use the Multigenre Mapper interactive to explore Macaulay's use of multiple genres by composing original multigenre texts.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 10
   Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830.
   Students discuss Dickinson's poem "This Is My Letter To The World" and use it to focus on how audience affects voice.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 20
   Sandra Cisneros was born today in 1954.
   Students choose a small aspect of their lives to develop into a story, poem, or brief essay inspired by Cisneros' work.