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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Rhetoric of Corporate Logos across Time
   Students think critically about how design elements in logos work together to tell a changing story about a company or product in this visual rhetoric lesson.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
   Students use art and poetry to explore and understand major characteristics of the Romantic period.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   An Introduction to Graphic Novels
   Tune in to hear some background about graphic novels as well as specific recommendations of fantasy epics, memoirs, biographies, and adventure thriller stories, all presented in the form of a graphic novel.
   
5. 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.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
   For this activity, teens study "Pass It On" billboards created by The Foundation for a Better Life either online or on-the-go, and create an original billboard and inspirational phrase for a person of their choosing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 25
   Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith was born in 1959.
   Students discuss some of the ways in which illustrations can enhance a story and then become illustrators, using a variety of media.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   CD/DVD Cover Creator
   The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 8
    Celebrate blues legend Robert Johnson's birthday.
    Students learn about blues music and brainstorm subjects that might give them "the blues." Finally, they write their own blues lyrics and have the option to perform.

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