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1. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept
   Students use fractured fairy tales to practice revision and editing as separate activities when they write their own versions of fairy tales.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 14
   Star Wars creator George Lucas was born in 1944.
   Students use the Hero's Journey interactive to describe how Luke Skywalker meets each stage of his journey, and then brainstorm other works that use the formula.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 2
   Teacher Appreciation Week honors our teachers.
   In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, students read a book about a teacher and follow up with an activity related to the book using the Venn Diagram, Letter Generator, Story Map, or Essay Map.