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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 1
   Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
   Students explore online resources about Ellis Island, interview an immigrant in the area, and publish their stories.
3. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Chasing the Dream: Researching the Meaning of the American Dream
   By conducting interviews, sharing and assessing data, and writing papers based on their authentic research, students reach their own conclusions on the meaning of the American Dream.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
   Students will research a local issue, and then write letters to two different audiences, asking readers to take a related action or adopt a specific position on the issue.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
   Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 31
   César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
   Students work in small groups to research a civil rights leader and do a creative writing piece, followed by a short story, with their group.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring the Power of Language with Six-Word Memoirs
   What do the words we write really have to say about us? In this lesson, students examine the power of word choice as they write six-word memoirs of their lives.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
   Gwendolyn Brooks published Bronzeville Boys and Girls in 1956.
   After students have read and discussed several poems from Brooks' collection, they create a poetry anthology for their own family, neighborhood, or classroom.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 9
    In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall.
    Students view Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation letter to the DAR in response to Andersen being denied permission to sing. Students write a letter to a newspaper editor about social injustice.

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