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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
   After reading John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player," students write poems describing themselves five years in the future. The teacher takes the poems and mails them to students in five years.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study
   Using several translations of the same passage of Beowulf, this lesson introduces students to the idea that translation is not an objective practice, but that it involves "imaginative reconstruction."
3. 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.