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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups
   Students learn how to effectively deal with bullying by participating in literature response groups and writing about when they experienced a similar situation or emotion as a fictional character.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
   Students explore and analyze the techniques that political (or editorial) cartoonists use and draw conclusions about why the cartoonists choose those techniques to communicate their messages.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
   Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
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. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
   Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
    Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.

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