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1. Professional Development | November 19–22, 2020
   2020 NCTE Annual Convention
   This fall, when we come together in Denver, let’s read, write, speak, listen, and view with curiosity. Together, we will be a confluencia of our songs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
   After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class.
3. 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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
   This book isn't about technology. It's about the teaching practices that technology enables. This book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animate that Haiku!
   Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   An Introduction to Graphic Novels
   Tune in to hear some background about graphic novels as well as specific recommendations of fantasy epics, memoirs, biographies, and adventure thriller stories, all presented in the form of a graphic novel.
   
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
   Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   1 – 4  |  Activity & Project
    Become a Young Archaeologist
    Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.

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