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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Inside or Outside? A Minilesson on Quotation Marks and More
    Students often question whether a punctuation mark goes inside or outside the quotation marks, especially when writing dialogue. This lesson helps students identify the conventions and apply them to their text.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    My Life/Your Life: A Look at Your Parents' Past
    Past and present come together when students interview their parents and create a skit that compares their parents' experiences as middle schoolers with the students' own lives.
    
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Peer Review: Narrative
    This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
    Students develop a definition of multigenre texts by exploring multigenre picture books. They brainstorm what it takes to read these texts successfully and discuss strategies needed to comprehend the texts.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
    What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The History Behind Song Lyrics
    Students research the items listed in the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, noting their historical relevance, and then document their findings using an online chart.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
    What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Mysteries of Memory: Memorization Techniques That Work
    Students learn techniques that can aid in memorizing information, play online memory games, and participate in a class memory game to develop and share their own memory strategies.

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