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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 11
   Alex Haley, author of Roots, was born in 1921.
   Students explore their own roots by interviewing family members and use their family history to write a fictional account of their roots.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 11
   Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935.
   Students explore the definition of a hero and use the interactive Venn diagram to identify the most common characteristics of a hero.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 15
   Beware the Ides of March!
   Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
   Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 8
   Celebrate International Literacy Day!
   Celebrate International Literacy Day by starting a literacy movement in your community.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 1
   Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
   Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 11
   Children's author Patricia Polacco was born in 1944.
   Students share family stories of their own by writing original poems and reviewing parts of speech using the Diamante Poems tool.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
   Connection Web
   Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
    Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.

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