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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
   Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and assume those personas for the party.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
   Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
   Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
   Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic," and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Experiencing Haiku Through Mindfulness, Movement & Music
   By being present and mindful on nature walks, students write haiku using vivid sensory language; and explore body movement, music and art as visual and kinesthetic representations of their poetry.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt: Researching Nutrition to Advertise for Health
   After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
    Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
    

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