Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.

This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.

Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.

Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.

Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.

Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.

Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.

Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.

Students use word webs to choose synonyms for generic adjectives and to learn to adjust their word usage for different contexts.

Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses.

Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.

Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.

Images have power—they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they analyze symbolism in Night and create symbolic photomontages.

What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.

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

Students circle their desks as they analyze their own participation within a small group discussion.