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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 17
   Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
   Books and webpages are gathered that focus on the work of African American poets and students explore the resources and find a poem to contribute to a poetry reading.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 8
   Faith Ringgold was born on October 8, 1930.
   Students use Ringgold's books as a springboard for a discussion of race, gender, and civil rights, and then write and illustrate original picture books on these topics.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
   Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
   
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
   This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
   Students read a poem by a Native American, explore Native American culture and then create a Website that explains words and phrases from the poem.