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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 23
    Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
    Students write diary entries and revisit the entries as if it were a hundred years from now. Students then brainstorm and write paragraphs about life in the 21st century.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
    Double-Entry Journal
    This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
    Exploring Cost and Savings Using Children's Literature
    Students make sense of dollars and cents when they study the importance of saving and budgeting in this lesson.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 12
    Gary Soto, poet and children's writer, was born on this date in 1952.
    Using one of Soto's stories, students take part in share stories about their families, describe their street/neighborhood, or compose an acrostic poem using the Acrostic Poems interactive tool.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 24
    Gold was discovered in California in 1848.
    Students read letters from the Gold Rush and follow up by writing an imaginary letter to a family member about their experience using the Letter Generator.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 3
    Gwendolyn Brooks published Bronzeville Boys and Girls in 1956.
    After students have read and discussed several poems from Brooks' collection, they create a poetry anthology for their own family, neighborhood, or classroom.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 5
    In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.
    Some of Fleishman's memories in his essay "My House of Voices" are shared with the class. Students then write a descriptive essay that gives a tour of the voices in their homes, school, etc.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 14
    Kodak was issued a film patent on October 14, 1884.
    Students create a scrapbook of their favorite pieces throughout the year and present it to parents at an end-of-year party.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 18
    Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.
    Through the study of Paul Revere, students learn about primary source documents while researching their family histories, with which they create and compare their family trees.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 2
    Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers
    Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.

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