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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 1
   Author Tim O'Brien was born on this day.
   After reading O'Brien's story "A True War Story" from The Things They Carried, students choose a powerful event from their own lives and map it using the Timeline Tool. They then create a fictional version of this event.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Psychological Profiles of Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird
   Students explore the motivation behind characters' actions in To Kill A Mockingbird by creating psychological profiles for characters from the novel.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
   Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme
   Students read texts by Dybek, Dickens, Poe, and Morrison to explore how authors use language to create setting and, in turn, how setting constructs other elements in a literary work.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
   Students analyze scary stories to 'break the code" of horror writing and use what they learn to write scary stories of their own.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres
   In this activity, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
   In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About Literary Characters
   Students read "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry, use a word map to identify characters' qualities or traits, discuss the characters' feelings and actions, and reflect upon these in journals.