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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
   Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
   Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
   Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology
   Students read and analyze technology reviews to establish the characteristics of the genre. They then compose their own reviews on a technology of their choice.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Vote for Me! Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars
   After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   What Did George Post Today? Learning About People of the American Revolution Through Facebook
   After researching famous people of the American Revolution, students create Facebook-like PowerPoint presentations to share their knowledge with classmates.