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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
   Movie music and magic set the scene for this lesson in which students analyze a scene from Good Morning, Vietnam and then create a scene of their own.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   The ABCs of Poetry
   Students examine a letter of the alphabet from all angles, creating image pools of original metaphors that they then turn into poems.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
   After exploring business and friendly letter formats, students write letters for various audiences and real-world purposes.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Feature Story—Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
   Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story by writing a profile of a classmate.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
   Students first analyze Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," then use Whitman's poem as a model as they create their own list poems.
7. Professional Development | Grades   11 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
   This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and a useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.