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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 30
   Black Beauty author Anna Sewell was born in 1820.
   Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 31
   César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
   Students work in small groups to research a civil rights leader and do a creative writing piece, followed by a short story, with their group.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
   Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
   Students work in small groups to examine Margaret Atwood's use of and observations about language in The Handmaid's Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
   Students will enjoy this blast from the past as they read the works of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein to analyze the way social issues are addressed in selected works.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 9
   The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
   Students explore body image and advertising through an activity where they bring in pictures from magazines that they read and discuss gender representations in the media.