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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
   Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme
   Students read texts by Dybek, Dickens, Poe, and Morrison to explore how authors use language to create setting and, in turn, how setting constructs other elements in a literary work.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
   Students analyze scary stories to 'break the code" of horror writing and use what they learn to write scary stories of their own.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Thinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
   This lesson eases students' fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns of imagery, diction, and figurative language in order to unlock meaning.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's Night
   Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.