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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating a Persuasive Podcast
    Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
    Students are exposed to wordless picture books and begin developing story lines, both orally and in writing, using an online, interactive story map.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
    Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
    
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
    Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
    In this lesson students research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures and then share their findings through digital storytelling.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
    Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
    
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
    Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
    
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Free Speech and Persuasion with Nothing But the Truth
    Students read Avi's Nothing But the Truth and examine the First Amendment and student rights, and then decide whether the rights of the novel's protagonist, Philip, are violated.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
    Students read and discuss a selection of poems from Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming to explore varying views on the process of desegregation in America.

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