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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
    Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature
    In this lesson, students analyze similarities and differences among depictions of slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, and nineteenth century photographs of slaves. Students formulate their analysis of the role of art and fiction, as they attempt to reliably reflect social ills, in a final essay.
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating a Persuasive Podcast
    Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Character Blogs
    Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
    Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Developing Citizenship Through Rhetorical Analysis
    Students analyze rhetorical strategies in online editorials, building knowledge of strategies and awareness of local and national issues. This lesson teaches students connections between subject, writer, and audience and how rhetorical strategies are used in everyday writing.
    
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
    Students keep a doodle journal while reading short stories by a common author. In small groups, students then combine their doodles into a graphic representation of the text.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
    Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
    Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.

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