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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 1
   April is National Poetry Month!
   Students are assigned to be "poets of the day" and are provided several models to create, illustrate, and present their different poems to the class.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
   Students read sonnets, charting the poems' characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   From Friedan Forward—Considering a Feminist Perspective
   Students write letters expressing personal views on issues like equal pay, equal education/employment opportunity, and gender roles—and receive these letters six years later.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
   After hearing Maya Angelou's poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," students infer information about the speaker and her feelings about America and reflect on how one's life and experiences can influence one's writing.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 9
   In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall.
   Students view Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation letter to the DAR in response to Andersen being denied permission to sing. Students write a letter to a newspaper editor about social injustice.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 27
   Playwright August Wilson was born in 1945.
   Students use the Timeline Tool and Drama Map to create a decade-by-decade record and play of their community's history.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 29
   Poet Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947.
   Students examine imagery in the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 13
   Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
   Students focus on the figurative language in Heaney's poem, "Digging," and discuss the speaker's attitude, and how metaphor, simile, and image contribute to the poem.
10. 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.