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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
    Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 22
    Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today.
    Students examine the painting that inspired Sondheim's Pulitzer-prize winning musical and then create a story of their own based on image they choose.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 31
    César Chávez was born on this day in 1927.
    Students work in small groups to research a civil rights leader and do a creative writing piece, followed by a short story, with their group.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
    Students investigate issues of plagiarism, fair use, and paraphrasing using KWL charts, discussion, and practice.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 11
    Ezra Jack Keats was born on this day in 1916.
    In celebration of Keats' birthday, students write stories that include some characters from Keats' books and practice using collage techniques with the Collage Machine.
16. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Fresh Perspectives on New Literacies and Technology Integration
    This article provides practical ideas for integrating technologies into the classroom in ways that honor students' out-of-school technology funds of knowledge.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Get the GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
    GIST is a summarizing technique that can be used in any content area. Students will learn and apply the strategy while doing online research and writing activities on news stories.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
    Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue
    Students analyze dialogue tags used with male and female characters in a book they have read. They then evaluate the message the dialogue tags convey about gender roles.
20. 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.

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