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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
   What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Media Literacy: Examining the World of Television Teens
   Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go behind the scenes to analyze a television series for characterization to use in an original television show proposal.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Novel News: Broadcast Coverage of Character, Conflict, Resolution, and Setting
   This twist on readers theater has students prepare original news programs based on incidents in a recent reading, as they explore standard literary elements of character, conflict, resolution, and setting.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
   Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries
   and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each
   story corresponds.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Unlocking the Underlying Symbolism and Themes of a Dramatic Work
   This lesson plan invites students to consider characters from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Students explore a selected character and write poems about objects associated with that character.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
   Students use word webs to choose synonyms for generic adjectives and to learn to adjust their word usage for different contexts.