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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Examining the Legacy of the American Civil Rights Era
   As part of their study of Richard Wright's Black Boy, students research and reflect on the current black-white racial divide in America. By examining the work of literature in the context of contemporary events, students will deepen their understanding of the work and of what it means to be an American today.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's Beloved
   Using Beloved as a model of a work with multiple narrative perspectives, students use a visualizing activity and close reading to consider ways in which subjective values shape contradictory representations.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Reaching Across Time: Scaffolded Engagements With a 19th-Century Text
   Students in the 21st century need to build background knowledge and fill in textual gaps to enter the unfamiliar world of "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street."
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
   In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
   Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.