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51. Classroom Resources | Grades   8 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
    After reading several poets' personal responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks, students write a "then and now" poem that puts their early memories of the event in conversation with their current understanding of and response to the tragedy.
52. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Rummaging for Fiction: Using Found Photographs and Notes to Spark Story Ideas
    In this lesson, students use found notes and found photographs as inspiration to help them identify subjects, settings, characters, and conflicts for pieces of creative writing.
53. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    So What Do You Think? Writing a Review
    Writing a review of an author's work challenges students to develop their critical thinking skills. It provides an opportunity for students to speak their minds—and to enjoy being heard.
54. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative
    In this lesson, students imagine spending a day in someone else's shoes. After reviewing the characteristics of narrative writing, they then write narratives from that person's point of view.
55. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again
    After exploring the styles of two authors, students translate passages from one author into the style of another. They then translate fables into the style of one of the authors.
56. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Summarizing with Haikus
    Using the Haiku Poem App or the Haiku Poem Interactive, students summarize papers they have written using the traditional format of a haiku.
57. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
    In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
58. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Comic Book Show and Tell
    Students craft comic scripts using clear, descriptive, and detailed writing that shows (illustrates) and tells (directs). After peers create an artistic interpretation of the script, students revise their original scripts.
59. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Correspondence Project: A Lesson of Letters
    After exploring business and friendly letter formats, students write letters for various audiences and real-world purposes.
60. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Feature Story—Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
    Students learn how to differentiate between a news story and a feature story by writing a profile of a classmate.

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