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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
   This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
   Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
   In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
   Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   10 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Life is Beautiful: Teaching the Holocaust through Film with Complementary Texts
   After students have read a book about the Holocaust, such as The Diary of Anne Frank or Night by Elie Wiesel, students will view Life is Beautiful and complete discussion questions to challenge their ability to analyze literature using film.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 11  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   "Three Stones Back": Using Informational Text to Enhance Understanding of Ball Don't Lie
   Students engage in a close reading of a passage from Matt de la Pena's novel Ball Don't Lie before researching important background information to assess the accuracy of the claims made by a character.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's Night
   Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.