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1. Professional Development | November 18–21, 2021
   2021 NCTE Annual Convention
   Each November thousands of literacy educators from across the country make the journey to a Convention that inspires their practice and rejuvenates their profession.
2. 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.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 19
   Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
   Students practice the Pre-AP strategy called SOAPSTone, identifying important parts of the Gettysburg Address and comparing it with John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
   This document provides a research-based resource that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
   Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
7. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
   Accent on meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry offers practical ways of teaching students about the close connections between the meaning, rhythm, and meter in poetry.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
   This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with A.S. King
   Tune in to hear about the seeds behind her newest novel, Everybody Sees the Ants. We'll discuss how several of the novel's key elements came about during Amy's writing process, how The Vagina Monologues connects thematically to elements of the text focused on bullying and torture, and how satire helped her to make a key point about Lucky Linderman's process of coming to terms with the adult world.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    A Conversation with Candace Fleming
    In the world of young adult literature, some of today's best and most powerful stories are being told by authors of nonfiction. Tune in to hear Candace Fleming discuss the origins of The Family Romanov, research as a process of questioning, and how authors of nonfiction are pushing the envelope in books for today's teens.

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