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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   And the Question Is... Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
   In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
   Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Persuasive Podcast
   Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
   Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Lights, Camera, Action...Music: Critiquing Films Using Sight and Sound
   Movie music and magic set the scene for this lesson in which students analyze a scene from Good Morning, Vietnam and then create a scene of their own.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
   This lesson will help punctuation make a mark on students as they read Jonathan Swift's work and analyze his use of punctuation.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through Connections
   Students examine text closely and create annotations to make personal and meaningful connections with the work.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
   After exploring business and friendly letter formats, students write letters for various audiences and real-world purposes.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Feature Story—Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
   Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story by writing a profile of a classmate.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing"
    Students first analyze Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," then use Whitman's poem as a model as they create their own list poems.