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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 9
   Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
   Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 23
   Avi was born in 1937.
   After reading Nothing But the Truth, students explore a current event topic and write their own short work of fiction in a similar multigenre format.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 2
   David Macaulay was born in 1946.
   Students use the Multigenre Mapper interactive to explore Macaulay's use of multiple genres by composing original multigenre texts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
   Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
   Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug's point of view.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community
   Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 5
   Walt Disney was born in 1901.
   Students describe female characters in Disney films, discuss their characteristics, and write a thesis statement about them.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
   Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
   Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.