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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
   Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Effective Poster Presentations
   Students explore the genre of posters, review informational writing and visual design, and then design poster presentations to share in class or at a school-wide fair.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt: Researching Nutrition to Advertise for Health
   After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
   Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
   Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Voting! What's It All About?
   Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.