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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
   In this project, students write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia
   Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
   Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
   Using several translations of the same passage of Beowulf, this lesson introduces students to the idea that translation is not an objective practice, but that it involves "imaginative reconstruction."
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
   Students will enjoy this blast from the past as they read the works of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein to analyze the way social issues are addressed in selected works.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
   Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Pros and Cons of Discussion
   Students use a Discussion Web to engage in meaningful discussion of the question, "Are people equal?"
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   What's My Subject? A Subject-Verb Agreement Minilesson
   Students explore subject–verb agreement using real-life examples and then talk about the difference between formal and informal language and how to use this important grammatical rule.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Worth Its Weight: Letter Writing with "The Things They Carried"
   This lesson uses a letter-writing activity based on Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" to build empathy as students examine the weight they symbolically carry in their own lives.