Students stage a mock trial for a literary character, with groups of students acting as the prosecution, defense, and jury.

Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.

By being present and mindful on nature walks, students write haiku using vivid sensory language; and explore body movement, music and art as visual and kinesthetic representations of their poetry.

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

Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.

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.

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

Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.

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.