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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Effective Poster Presentations
   Students explore the genre of posters, review informational writing and visual design, and then design poster presentations to share in class or at a school-wide fair.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Ekphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry
   In this lesson, students explore ekphrasis—writing inspired by art. Students find pieces of art that inspire them and compose a booklet of poems about the pieces they have chosen.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
4. 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.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Children's Picture Book Project
   In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.