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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
   Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blurring Genre: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction with Diary of a Worm
   After reading several examples of how a published author incorporates facts in fiction writing, students research a topic of their choice and write fictional diary entries that incorporate factual information.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
   Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
   Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
   In this lesson students research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures and then share their findings through digital storytelling.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
   Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But the Truth
    Students read Avi's Nothing But the Truth and examine the First Amendment and student rights, and then decide whether the rights of the novel's protagonist, Philip, are violated.

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