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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
   Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
   Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
   Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
   Everyone knows that Star Wars character Darth Vader is a villain. This lesson asks students to explore how they know such things about heroes and villains they encounter in texts.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Weaving the Multigenre Web
    Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.