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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
   This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
   African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
   Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Afterschool and Summer Reading with LGBTQ Content
   Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Rhetoric of Corporate Logos across Time
   Students think critically about how design elements in logos work together to tell a changing story about a company or product in this visual rhetoric lesson.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 15
   Bill of Rights Day is observed.
   Students identify a students' rights issue and explore the ways in which the Bill of Rights does protect and does not protect students.
7. 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.
8. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 18
   Celebrate Mandela Day today.
   After reading Kadir Nelson's Nelson Mandela, students explore the Mandela Day website before using an online tool to start working on a service project of their own.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
    Celebrate National Library Week!
    Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.

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