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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 23
   Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
   After viewing some footage from the actual event, students jot down thoughts and feelings of the Little Rock Nine. Students then write a bio-poem that might have been written by one of these students on this historic day.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
   Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 4
   Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
   Students are guided in an exploration of search tools and have a discussion about the purposes, benefits, and disadvantages of each.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   I've Got It Covered! Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts
   Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on students' agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 15
   Latinx Heritage Month begins today.
   Students brainstorm all the various aspects of Latinx culture and compile topics to research. Groups then research topics and present their information to the class.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
   Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 13
   Roald Dahl was born on this day in 1916.
   Students adapt a Roald Dahl story to picture book format and share their books and add them to the classroom library. Additionally, they compare a book version and film version of one of Dahl's works.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 29
   Scotland Yard was established this day in 1829.
   Students explore the resources on the Scotland Yard website and compare the advice given to London's citizens to the advice available from the local police department.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
    Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

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