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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
   Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   And the Question Is... Writing Good Survey Questions
   There's no question that students will be able to compose good survey questions by the end of this lesson.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 1
   Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
   Students explore online resources about Ellis Island, interview an immigrant in the area, and publish their stories.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
   Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 9  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 20
    Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.
    Students write original picture books based on their own aspirations and dreams and share with the class or with younger students.

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