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Suzanne Linder
| Name | Suzanne Linder |
| Location | Champaign, Illinois |
| Role | High School Teacher |
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"Engaged teaching is an ever-evolving collaborative process, and it has been fun to write about the successful lessons I've taught in my classroom for ReadWriteThink. I hope that these lessons will inspire other teachers to try these ideas, freely adapt them, and share what they discover with the larger teaching and learning community."
Suzanne Linder teaches English and Social Advocacy at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. She has been teaching since 1997 and has a bachelor's degree in English and theater education and a master's degree in speech communication with a focus on adolescents and the media. In 2004 she was selected as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar to New Zealand.
A member of NCTE, Suzanne is especially interested in social justice education and 21st century literacies. In her free time, she is a volunteer with the Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project.
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A “Brief, Urgent Message”: Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five 
As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare
After reading The Tempest or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Language and Power in The Handmaid’s Tale and the World
Students work in small groups to examine Margaret Atwood’s use of and observations about language in The Handmaid’s Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Students imagine and storyboard their own vision of the transformation of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde and then evaluate movie portrayals.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Characterization and Style
Students use social networking sites to trace the development of characters by assuming the persona of a character on the class Ning and sending a set number of tweets, or status updates.
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide you will learn how online reading differs from offline reading and strategies to build and reinforce the skills that online reading requires.
