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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Confidence in Community Literacies: Bilingual Writers Reading the World
   In this Web seminar, join Steven Alvarez in considering how the strengths of after-school community programs—connecting with language-minoritized communities in ways that build relationships of trust, or confianza, between parents, extended families, and caring adults in neighborhoods—can inform our practices as teachers of English language learners.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 3
   Jesse James robs the Obocock Bank in 1871.
   Students listen to folksongs and related information about Jesse James, and then research James' life and write new folk songs about James or another famous outlaw.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 14
   June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
   Students consider how America, Americans, and the flag are represented in different patriotic songs and hypothesize about the reasons for their differences.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
   Students put their heads together in a poetry circle to learn and practice different forms of poetry.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry: Sound and Sense
   Students' groans about studying poetry may disappear with this lesson in which students read poetry from various writers and use these poems to examine the sounds and sense of language.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
   Students explore figurative language by examining the lyrics of popular songs.