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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Tale of a Few Text Messages: A Character Study of A Tale of Two Cities
   Students use A Tale of Two Cities to explore relationships, plot points, character traits, and background by writing text messages between characters within the novel.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Rewind the Plot!
   In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices by rewinding the plot.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
   This lesson uses clips from The Matrix and other dystopian movies to introduce students to the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dialect Detectives: Exploring Dialect in Great Expectations
   Great Expectations is rich in dialogue and in the dialect of the working class and the poor of Victorian England. What does Dickens reveal about his characters using dialect?
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran
   To prepare students for reading the graphic novel Persepolis, this lesson uses a WebQuest to focus students' research on finding reliable information about Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
   Students explore The Great Gatsby's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting
   This twist on readers theater has students prepare original news programs based on incidents in a recent reading, as they explore standard literary elements of character, conflict, resolution, and setting.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Outside In: Finding A Character's Heart Through Art
    This activity, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the stories of Raymond Carver, challenges students to get inside contemporary life and characters through the creation of monologues.

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