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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Better Presentation Slides through Glance Media and Billboard Design
   This lesson introduces the concept of "glance media" through an analysis of billboards. Students apply design concepts by creating a slide presentation to accompany an existing historical speech.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
   Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
   Students explore The Great Gatsby's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
   Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
   This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.