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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
   Students read three short stories about women; discuss the development of female characters, gender differences, and society's expectations; and write scripts in which the characters discuss their similarities and differences.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
   Students are often asked to perform speeches, but rarely do we require students to analyze speeches as carefully as we study works of literature. In this unit, students are required to identify the rhetorical strategies in a famous speech and the specific purpose for each chosen device. They will write an essay about its effectiveness and why it is still famous after all these years.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
   Students explore and analyze the techniques that political (or editorial) cartoonists use and draw conclusions about why the cartoonists choose those techniques to communicate their messages.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature
   In this lesson, students analyze similarities and differences among depictions of slavery in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, and nineteenth century photographs of slaves. Students formulate their analysis of the role of art and fiction, as they attempt to reliably reflect social ills, in a final essay.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
   In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
   Reading historical selections will give students the perspective they need to compare the author's purpose and voice of two separate writers.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Decoding the Dystopian Characteristics of Macintosh's "1984" Commercial
   This lesson uses the "1984" Macintosh Commercial to introduce students to dystopian characteristics. Students analyze techniques used in the commercial and identify the comments that it makes about contemporary society.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
   Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue
    Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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