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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
   Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Chasing the Dream: Researching the Meaning of the American Dream
   By conducting interviews, sharing and assessing data, and writing papers based on their authentic research, students reach their own conclusions on the meaning of the American Dream.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare
   After reading The Tempest or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring a Teen's World: Learning SAT Vocabulary Through Drama
   Students use SAT vocabulary to create and film a screenplay. They perform all roles, from writing through filming, resulting in a resource for their classmates.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
   Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   I Have a Dream: Exploring Nonviolence in Young Adult Texts
   Students will identify how Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolent conflict-resolution is reinterpreted in modern texts. Homework is differentiated to prompt discussion on how nonviolence is portrayed through characterization and conflict. Students will be formally assessed on a thesis essay that addresses the Six Kingian Principles of Nonviolence.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   In Literature, Interpretation is the Thing
   Students consider Shakespearean literature to be or not to be useful in a modern context when they analyze the relationship between text and reader interpretation.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry Circles: Generative Writing Loops Help Students Craft Verse
    Students put their heads together in a poetry circle to learn and practice different forms of poetry.

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