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1. Professional Development | November 16–19, 2017
   2017 NCTE Annual Convention
   Teaching Our Students Today, Tomorrow, Forever: Recapturing Our Voices, Our Agency, Our Mission
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
   Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Addressing Common Core Standards (Without Letting Them Take Over Your Curriculum)
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Addressing Common Core Standards (Without Letting Them Take Over Your Curriculum)" hosted by Scott Filkins.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Afterschool and Summer Reading with LGBTQ Content
   Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
   Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
    Students compare attending a performance at The Globe Theater with attending a modern theater production or movie. They then create a commercial for an Elizabethan audience promoting a modern product.

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