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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Comparing William Carlos Williams's Poetry with Cubist Paintings
   Through discussion, drawing, and writing, students compare how William Carlos Williams's poetry and Cubist and Precisionist painting employ similar artistic strategies, enhancing their understanding of both kinds of text.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
   This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
   Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
   Students will create a beginning resume that represents their current work experience and demonstrates their knowledge of rhetorical situations for professional writing.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
   Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest through a Postcolonial Lens
   Students take a postcolonial perspective on the portrayal of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest by comparing it to a modern adaptation of the play.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Passion of Punctuation
   Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
   Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play.