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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood Text" Sets
   Students discuss and compare differing versions of "Little Red Riding Hood" and other tales about wolves in cumulative read-aloud sessions and text set explorations.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Moving Toward Acceptance Through Picture Books and Two-Voice Texts
   Students read and discuss literature about intolerance and diversity. They work with a partner to write two-voice poems that illustrate situations of intolerance at their school and suggest a step toward acceptance.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Packing the Pilgrim's Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
   Students make personal connections between their lives and those of Pilgrim children by following the Pilgrims' move to the New World, their daily lives and struggles and their first Thanksgiving.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest through a Postcolonial Lens
   Students take a postcolonial perspective on the portrayal of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest by comparing it to a modern adaptation of the play.