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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
   Students explore and analyze the techniques that political (or editorial) cartoonists use and draw conclusions about why the cartoonists choose those techniques to communicate their messages.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
   Students will really get into the swing of things as they analyze the text and film versions of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Pit and the Pendulum."
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature
   In this lesson, students analyze similarities and differences among depictions of slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, and nineteenth century photographs of slaves. Students formulate their analysis of the role of art and fiction, as they attempt to reliably reflect social ills, in a final essay.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
   Through a study of Langston Hughes' poetry, students connect his writing to his place in history.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
   History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
   Tap students' desires to doodle and draw by having them create a Graffiti Wall, using graphics to discuss a piece of literature that has been read by the whole class.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
   Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   In the Style of Ernie Pyle: Reporting on World War II
   Students will think this lesson should make the headlines when they finish researching Ernie Pyle's work in preparation for writing their own news articles.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
    Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.

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