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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 28
   Author of Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.
   Students research the concept of immortality from beliefs around the world and compose a short story, myth, or poem that addresses immortality.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 21
   Novelist Ernest Hemingway was born on this day in 1899.
   Students examine the ways different authors treat the subject of war in their writing and compare and contrast using the Venn Diagram interactive.