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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   Exploring Satire with Shrek
   The movie Shrek introduces the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics, identify satirical techniques, then create their own satirical versions of fairy tales.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
   Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 18
   In 1931, Toni Morrison was born.
   After retelling a familiar fable, students discover the differences in one of Morrison's retellings of a fable.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's Beloved
   Using Beloved as a model of a work with multiple narrative perspectives, students use a visualizing activity and close reading to consider ways in which subjective values shape contradictory representations.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Summarization in any Subject
   Focusing on practical applications, this web seminar by Rick Wormelli presents the specific steps of summarization, its impact on learning, and dozens of summarization techniques for all subject areas, not just English.