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Weaving the Multigenre Web
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Unit |
| Estimated Time | Twelve 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Yankton, South Dakota |
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STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Inquiry & Analysis
Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution as prewriting for their own fiction or as analysis of a text by another author in this secondary-level interactive.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
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.
Grades 3 – 8 | Calendar Activity |  August 1
The prototype for the World Wide Web was created in 1990.
Students look at pictures from the past using the WayBack Machine and brainstorm a few websites to explore to think about how they have changed over the years.

