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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative
    In this lesson, students imagine spending a day in someone else's shoes. After reviewing the characteristics of narrative writing, they then write narratives from that person's point of view.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again
    After exploring the styles of two authors, students translate passages from one author into the style of another. They then translate fables into the style of one of the authors.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
    In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing
    After examining two sets of stories that author Raymond Carver renamed in revision, students write a reflective essay in which they defend their choice of a title for one them.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    There Are No Small Parts: Minor Characters in David Copperfield
    This lesson capitalizes on students' interest in social networking by asking students to build an online profile for a minor character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
    Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
    This lesson plan invites students to consider characters from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Students explore a selected character and write poems about objects associated with that character.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Weaving the Multigenre Web
    Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.

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