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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Aim for the Heart: Using Haiku to Identify Theme
   Using haiku, students focus on themes in literature and demonstrate their understanding of an author's message. Writing haiku to accompany an analytical paper hones analytical skills and fosters creative expression.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
   Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   And in Conclusion: Inquiring into Strategies for Writing Effective Conclusions
   While drafting a literary analysis essay (or another type of argument) of their own, students work in pairs to investigate advice for writing conclusions and to analyze conclusions of sample essays. They then draft two conclusions for their essay, select one, and reflect on what they have learned through the process.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
   After reading John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player," students write poems describing themselves five years in the future. The teacher takes the poems and mails them to students in five years.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio Texts
   Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio texts, then analyze the details and compare their results to published reports on American radio listeners.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Beyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
   After reading and analyzing short examples of travel writing and discussing conventions of the genre, students write their own travel articles.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events
    Students interview other students, choose significant life events, rate them, graph them, and write about one or more, in this activity that integrates mathematical graphing with writing.

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