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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
   Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in The Great Gatsby
   Students explore the connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
   Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
   Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning-Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
   Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I've Got the Literacy Blues
   Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
    Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.

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