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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   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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
   History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
   Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 16
   The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773.
   Students create a political cartoon for the Boston Tea Party and use the interactive Comic Creator to publish them.