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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events
   Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate them, graph them, and write about one or more, in this activity that integrates mathematical graphing with writing.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
   Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   I Remember That Book: Rereading as a Critical Investigation
   Curl up with a good book again—or not. In this lesson, students brainstorm why they reread some books, while passing up others, and write their reflections in an essay.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Is a Sentence a Poem?
   Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
   Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem
   Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Put That on the List: Independently Writing a Catalog Poem
   In this follow-up to writing collaborative catalog poems, students write individual catalog poems about what really matters in their lives, based on Carver's poem "The Car."
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature
   Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Children's Picture Book Project
   In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Writing Technical Instructions
    Students walk through the process of creating technical instructions by analyzing existing instructions, choosing an audience, writing their own instructions, receiving user feedback, and then revising and publishing their instructions.

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