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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Character Blogs
   Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front
   After reading All Quiet on the Western Front, students discuss the novel's ironic ending, then compose alternate titles and endings for the book, and design new book covers.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
   August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
   and small. Students learn how to create effective discussion questions and then put them to use in student-led discussions.
   
10. 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.

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