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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 25
   Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
   Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.
2. 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."
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Critical Literacy at the Intersections of Sport and Society
   This interactive Web seminar will explore the ways teachers can foster critical literacy practices by engaging students in the meaningful study of sports culture.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" Commercial
   This lesson uses the "1984" Macintosh Commercial to introduce students to dystopian characteristics. Students analyze techniques used in the commercial and identify the comments that it makes about contemporary society.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
   This lesson uses clips from The Matrix and other dystopian movies to introduce students to the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 21
   Humorist Erma Bombeck was born in 1927.
   Using lines from Bombeck's newspaper column, students identify allusive or satirical humor. Older students can rewrite the passages for a different audience.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
   Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
8. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
   This resources promotes the use new literacies to help students connect to school texts.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
   Students use persuasive writing and an understanding of the characteristics of letters to the editor to compose effective letters to the editor on topics of interest to them.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
    Students explore the genre of commercial endorsements, establishing characteristics and requirements for the genre. Each student then composes an endorsement of a product, service, company, or industry.

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