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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Locating Purpose in Allusion through Art and Poetry
    Through this lesson, students will learn how to use the literary term "allusion" in discussing how and why authors and artists draw on and transform subject material.
12. 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.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
    Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
    Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
    This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
    
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
    Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
17. 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.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Comic Book Show and Tell
    Students craft comic scripts using clear, descriptive, and detailed writing that shows (illustrates) and tells (directs). After peers create an artistic interpretation of the script, students revise their original scripts.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    You're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
    Students analyze the lyrics to Cole Porter's "You're the Top!" and then update them to include current "tops" in pop culture.

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