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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many Ways to Rainy Mountain
   Following the model of N. Scott Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Feature Story—Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
   Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story by writing a profile of a classmate.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
   Students first analyze Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," then use Whitman's poem as a model as they create their own list poems.