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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas
   V is for vocabulary. A content area unit provides the theme for a specialized ABC book, as students select, research, define, and illustrate a word for each alphabet letter.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 19
   Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
   Students practice the Pre-AP strategy called SOAPSTone, identifying important parts of the Gettysburg Address and comparing it with John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A “Cay”ribbean Island Study
   As a pre-reading activity for The Cay, groups of students choose and study a Caribbean island, create a final product in the format of their choice, and finally, do an oral presentation to share information learned.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
   This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with Patricia McCormick
   While all YA authors focus in some way on the process of young people coming of age, very few do so with the depth and versatility you will find in the novels of Patricia McCormick. Tune in to hear the story behind her latest novel, Never Fall Down, the harrowing and heartbreaking account of Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond.
7. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 20
   Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
   Students do a journal entry about barriers that have been broken–such as age, race, and gender–that might impede them in the future, and how they can break through those barriers.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 16
    African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
    Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.

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