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31. 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.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
    In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios
    Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Creating Better Presentation Slides through Glance Media and Billboard Design
    This lesson introduces the concept of "glance media" through an analysis of billboards. Students apply design concepts by creating a slide presentation to accompany an existing historical speech.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 2
    David Macaulay was born in 1946.
    Students use the Multigenre Mapper interactive to explore Macaulay's use of multiple genres by composing original multigenre texts.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Decoding The Matrix Exploring Dystopian Characteristics through Film
    This lesson uses clips from The Matrix and other dystopian movies to introduce students to the characteristics found in dystopian works, such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Defining Literacy in a Digital World
    Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read and compose—including books and magazines, television shows, movies, audio broadcasts, hypertexts, and animations.
38. 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.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Dialect Detectives: Exploring Dialect in Great Expectations
    Great Expectations is rich in dialogue and in the dialect of the working class and the poor of Victorian England. What does Dickens reveal about his characters using dialect?
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 16
    Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
    Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.

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