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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 30
   Black Beauty author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
   Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
   Students read and discuss a selection of poems from Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming to explore varying views on the process of desegregation in America.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Persuasive Writing
   This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
   Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 21
   Today is the International Day of Peace.
   Students brainstorm a list of current conflicts and why people fight. Groups discuss and present possible solutions and create posters that promote their particular solution.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 3
    Today is World Read Aloud Day.
    Students celebrate the power of words by reading aloud to their classmates and spreading the word of global literacy to their friends and family.

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