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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A World of Readers: Libraries Around the World
   Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
   Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
   Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
   Students investigate issues of plagiarism, fair use, and paraphrasing using KWL charts, discussion, and practice.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue
   Students analyze dialogue tags used with male and female characters in a book they have read. They then evaluate the message the dialogue tags convey about gender roles.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Peer Review: Narrative
   This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
   Students develop a definition of multigenre texts by exploring multigenre picture books. They brainstorm what it takes to read these texts successfully and discuss strategies needed to comprehend the texts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
   What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The History Behind Song Lyrics
   Students research the items listed in the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, noting their historical relevance, and then document their findings using an online chart.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
    What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.