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21. 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.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
    Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.
23. 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.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
    This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    An Exploration of Text Sets: Supporting All Readers
    Students create text sets on a high interest topic and use the texts to practice three strategies for reading for information.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Animate that Haiku!
    Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 12
    Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
    Students learn about eyewitness reports through a lesson that is grade-level appropriate. Then, groups use primary source documents and research an event using eyewitness accounts.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 1
    Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
    Students explore online resources about Ellis Island, interview an immigrant in the area, and publish their stories.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
    Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
    A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Printout  |  Assessment Tool
    Anticipation Guide
    Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.

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