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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 – 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   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection
   This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
   In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
   Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fantastic Characters: Analyzing and Creating Superheroes and Villains
   Students analyze characterization by creating their own superheroes or super-villains,
   complete with related gadgets and settings.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
   Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
   Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
    Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.

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