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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
   Students research mask-making from various cultures, highlight the masks' connections to cultural practices, compose poetry to reveal their understanding, analyze their own culture, and create personal masks and poetry.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Examining the Legacy of the American Civil Rights Era
   As part of their study of Richard Wright's Black Boy, students research and reflect on the current black-white racial divide in America. By examining the work of literature in the context of contemporary events, students will deepen their understanding of the work and of what it means to be an American today.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond
   Students explore the idea of "different Englishes" by reading Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and writing literacy narratives about their own use of different language for different audiences and purposes.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A WebQuest on Iran
   To prepare students for reading the graphic novel Persepolis, this lesson uses a WebQuest to focus students' research on finding reliable information about Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Latino Poetry Blog: Blogging as a Forum for Open Discussion
   In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Locating Purpose in Allusion through Art and Poetry
   Through this lesson, students will learn how to use the literary term "allusion" in discussing how and why authors and artists draw on and transform subject material.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using Maus
   Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel Maus. The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's Beloved
   Using Beloved as a model of a work with multiple narrative perspectives, students use a visualizing activity and close reading to consider ways in which subjective values shape contradictory representations.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century Text
    Students in the 21st century need to build background knowledge and fill in textual gaps to enter the unfamiliar world of "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street."

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