Students research the items listed in the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, noting their historical relevance, and then document their findings using an online chart.

Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.

Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.

Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.

Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic," and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.

Students really get into character in this lesson as they act out the parts of a script and analyze character motivations and dialogue.

Classroom biography study offers high-interest reading with a purpose, as students begin with inquiry and research, summarize and organize their information, and prepare oral presentations to share with the class.

Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.

Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.

Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.

Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.

History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.