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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 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection
   This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices.
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
   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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Robert Frost Prompts the Poet in You
   Students will find their inner poet laureate in this lesson that involves writing a poem in the style of Robert Frost.