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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
   This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
   This lesson eases students' fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning.