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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
   Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
   After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
   In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
   This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Giving Voice to Students Through "This I Believe" Podcasts
   Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentations
   Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Tracking the Ways Writers Develop Heroes and Villains
    Everyone knows that Star Wars character Darth Vader is a villain. This lesson asks students to explore how they know such things about heroes and villains they encounter in texts.