After retelling a familiar fable, students discover the differences in one of Morrison's retellings of a fable.

Through Sewell's novel, students explore the cruelty to animals and extend the discussion to current events, eventually presenting the information.

Students celebrate Frost's birthday by exploring his innovation in the sonnet form by studying poems and presenting them to the class.

Students revive elements of the oral tradition by writing about something funny that happened to them recently, sharing with classmates, and discussing the changes that occur during the retelling of the stories.

Students read examples of traditional Scottish ballads and use this information to write and perform their own ballads.

Students compare different versions of the fairy tale Cinderella and then rewrite a lesser-known Grimm story and explain the changes they made.

After students read the novel The Color Purple, dialect is discussed and students write a short piece of fiction or poetry using the dialect of their peer group.

Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.

Students have fun with language by creating a special kind of pun with its origin in a literary source.