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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
   What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
   Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Citizenship Through Rhetorical Analysis
   Students analyze rhetorical strategies in online editorials, building knowledge of strategies and awareness of local and national issues. This lesson teaches students connections between subject, writer, and audience and how rhetorical strategies are used in everyday writing.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
   Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
   In this lesson, students use a scaffold to help them compile information to write a solid research paper.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
   In an effort to help motivate students to read nonfiction, students are challenged to use a timeline to help them name the year when certain products were invented.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
   Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   What is Poetry? Contrasting Poetry and Prose
   Students often find poetry frustrating and meaningless. By helping students think critically about the differences between poetry and prose, this introduction sets the stage for different strategies for comprehending poetic texts.