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1. Classroom Resources | 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.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Adults and Teens Reading Together
   Tune in to hear about eight new novels that all focus in some way on teens and their complicated relationships with family members, peers, and the larger world.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Student Interactive  |  Inquiry & Analysis
   Animal Inquiry
   Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Second Look at The Hunger Games
   With a new movie version of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ story of a dystopian world where children are forced to fight to the death on live television is set to reach an even broader audience. Tune in to hear about the seeds for The Hunger Games story, themes that distinguish the series as an important work of literature, and what the books have to offer teen readers.
   
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
   In this Strategy Guide, you’ll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
   What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Bio Cube
   Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today’s Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Books about Bullying
   Tune in to hear insights on bullying from bullying expert CJ Bott, author of The Bully in the Book and the Classroom and More Bullies in More Books. You’ll also hear about a variety of fiction and nonfiction books for teens that explore the problem of bullying.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Books Worth Owning
    In this episode, you'll hear about those qualities along with a wide range of great new titles including adventure books, historical fiction, coming of age books, and story collections.
    

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