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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
    Students read and discuss a selection of poems from Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming to explore varying views on the process of desegregation in America.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
    Students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
    August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
    and small. Students learn how to create effective discussion questions and then put them to use in student-led discussions.
    
14. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Follow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure Hunt
    Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
    Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
16. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
    Let the Show Begin! Literary Talent Show
    Children choose their favorite songs, dances, poems, or stories to act out in a talent show for friends and family.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literacy Centers: Getting Started
    This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer's Style through Imitation
    This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poet's work then create their own poems based on the original model.
19. 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.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Moving Toward Acceptance Through Picture Books and Two-Voice Texts
    Students read and discuss literature about intolerance and diversity. They work with a partner to write two-voice poems that illustrate situations of intolerance at their school and suggest a step toward acceptance.

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