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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   An Exploration of The Crucible through Seventeenth-Century Portraits
   In this lesson, students incorporate analyses of characters from The Crucible with examinations of original seventeenth-century portraits of Puritans to create a visual portrait of the character. The project culminates in a "Portrait Gallery Walk" where students present and defend their artwork.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy
   By exploring the decisions points in a tragedy, students consider how the plot of the story can change if the key characters make a different choice at the turning point.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
   Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Readers Theatre With Jan Brett
   Students in grades 1-2 use Jan Brett's Hedgie's Surprise for a Readers Theatre experience.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
   After reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, students identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting Birth of Venus and examples from the play illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
   This lesson introduces students to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by having them examine the ideas of tragedy and tragic love by connecting the story to their own lives.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   11 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    What's the Purpose?: Examining a Cold Manipulation of Language
    With a crafty pen, Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood to create a new genre and shock his audience. This lesson will help students examine Capote's manipulation of language as he forces his audience to take a different look at murderers and consider a different definition of nonfiction. His unique purpose leaves students an interesting text to consider.