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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
   Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
   Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
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   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
   Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres
   In this activity, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   The Children's Picture Book Project
   In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
    Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play.

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