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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
   Through Eileen Murphy Buckley's 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 25
   Artist Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881.
   Students view a Picasso piece, write their impressions, and share. Students can create their own Picasso-style art using the interactive Picassohead.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
   Students choose unfamiliar words from their reading and create a multigenre, multimodal glossary of terms.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
   Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 16
   Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
   Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 1
   Get ready for National Bullying Prevention Month!
   Students create a poster to enter into a poster contest that educates others about issues surrounding bullying.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
   Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
   
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 14
   Kodak was issued a film patent on October 14, 1884.
   Students create a scrapbook of their favorite pieces throughout the year and present it to parents at an end-of-year party.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
   Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.