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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
   This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Rhetoric of Corporate Logos across Time
   Students think critically about how design elements in logos work together to tell a changing story about a company or product in this visual rhetoric lesson.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Persuasive Podcast
   Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
   Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
   History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
   Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution is reinterpreted in modern texts. Homework is differentiated to prompt discussion on how nonviolence is portrayed through characterization and conflict. Students will be formally assessed on a thesis essay that addresses the Six Kingian Principles of Nonviolence.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
   This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online Writing
   Anne Frank shared her experiences through a private diary that became public as a book. In this lesson, students will consider how writing creates social identities as they blog about a political issue.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Great Service-Learning Debate & Research Project
    Students debate about incorporating service-learning into their school's curriculum.

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