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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 6
   Author Gabriel García Márquez was born on this day.
   Students take place in a collaborative creative writing activity to begin to understand the hallmarks of the literary style known as magical realism.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 23
   Avi was born in 1937.
   After reading Nothing But the Truth, students explore a current event topic and write their own short work of fiction in a similar multigenre format.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   In 1928, Maya Angelou was born.
   After hearing Maya Angelou's poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," students infer information about the speaker and her feelings about America and reflect on how one's life and experiences can influence one's writing.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 29
   Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel Out of the Dust, was born in 1952.
   Students write original short works of historical fiction in verse format, modeling the style Hesse used to write Out of the Dust.