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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
   Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
   Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
   Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
   Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
   What do the words we write really have to say about us? In this lesson, students examine the power of word choice as they write six-word memoirs of their lives.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
   Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise with Pop Culture Dictionaries
   Students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts (e.g., television shows, movies, lyrics, YouTube videos), connecting their definitions to their personal use of the terms.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
   Students work in small groups to examine Margaret Atwood's use of and observations about language in The Handmaid's Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Minilesson
   Clang, clash, or tinkle? Students explore the use of onomatopoeia in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" before choosing their own sound words in response to specific sounds.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Picture This: Student Created Online Vocabulary Flashcards
    Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Prior to whole class instruction, students create online flashcards and teach the class the new vocabulary.

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