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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
   Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and assume those personas for the party.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
   Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
   History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
   Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
   Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
   Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.