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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   E-pals Around the World
   With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Heroes Around Us
   Students select, read about, and report on a hero and then identify how their hero matches certain criteria and characteristics. Hero reports are then compiled into a class book.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
   Struggling to survive is one of the many themes explored in A Girl Named Disaster. As students read, they look for connections between themselves and the main character, Nhamo.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
   Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Voice with Anthony Browne's Voices in the Park
   Students analyze Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to determine how an author keeps an audience interested by creating voice and to applying that knowledge to their own writing.