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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
   Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Tale of a Few Text Messages: A Character Study of A Tale of Two Cities
   Students use A Tale of Two Cities to explore relationships, plot points, character traits, and background by writing text messages between characters within the novel.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia
   Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's Rite of Passage
   Students use the elements of persuasion for a specific audience to demonstrate their understanding of Richard Wright's accessible and engaging coming-of-age novel, Rite of Passage.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Literature through Letter-Writing Groups
   Students discuss literature through a series of letter exchanges, as a one-time assignment or throughout the year with the students discussing, and making connections among, a number of literary works.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme
   Students read texts by Dybek, Dickens, Poe, and Morrison to explore how authors use language to create setting and, in turn, how setting constructs other elements in a literary work.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales using Wikis
   Students study Chaucer's Canterbury Tales not just for its rich language, but also for the insights it provides into the Middle Ages. Using wikis, students collaborate to study both literature and history on their own terms. They create meaning and build information networks using tools Chaucer himself would have loved.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
   This lesson has students explore freedom of speech by examining the Pledge of Allegiance from a historical and personal perspective and in relationship to fictional situations in novels.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
   Students analyze scary stories to 'break the code" of horror writing and use what they learn to write scary stories of their own.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
    Tap students' desires to doodle and draw by having them create a Graffiti Wall, using graphics to discuss a piece of literature that has been read by the whole class.

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