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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  |  Standard Lesson
   I Remember That Book: Rereading as a Critical Investigation
   Curl up with a good book again—or not. In this lesson, students brainstorm why they reread some books, while passing up others, and write their reflections in an essay.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 30
   Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
   Students explore satire and parody in television and film, advertising, and journalism and create a display that highlights their findings.
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun
   Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Looking for the Byronic Hero Using Twilight's Edward Cullen
   Using the character of Edward Cullen from the Twilight series, this lesson introduces the Byronic hero and asks students to compare the Byronic hero to the traditional hero and villain.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
   Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature
   Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
8. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library
   Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
   The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Children's Picture Book Project
   In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.