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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
   Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
   After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
   Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
   Students explore The Great Gatsby's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
   This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet's work then create their own poems based on the original model.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
   Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
   This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job Placement
   Working as career counselors for a literary character, students find a job for the character, prepare a resume, and design questions and answers to prepare them for a job interview.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 18
   Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
   Students identify characteristics of Carver's work and compare them to other authors, as well as to literary minimalism. Students then write original poems or short stories in minimalist style.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 14
    Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
    Students use the Hero's Journey interactive to describe how Luke Skywalker meets each stage of his journey, and then brainstorm other works that use the formula.

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