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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
   This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
   Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
   This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Resumes and Cover Letters for High School Students
   High school students are taught how to use resumes and cover letters to highlight their skills and make them stand out, whether applying to college or for a job.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
   Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Twenty-First Century Informational Literacy: Integrating Research Techniques and Technology
   Students develop their reading, writing, research, and technology skills using graphic novels. As a final activity, students create their own graphic novels using comic software.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Weaving the Multigenre Web
    Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.