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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
    Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    All's Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
    Students compare attending a performance at The Globe Theater with attending a modern theater production or movie. They then create a commercial for an Elizabethan audience promoting a modern product.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Alter Egos and More with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
    After reading Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write their own radio show, modeled after the book.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
    Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    "America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
    Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
    Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
    Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing Character in Hamlet through Epitaphs
    Students create epitaphs for characters from a tragedy, such as Hamlet.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
    Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing First-Person Narration in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind
    Students explore the different facets of complexity in the compelling first-person narrator in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind.

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