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Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
You're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now
Students analyze the lyrics to Cole Porter's "You're the Top!" and then update them to include current "tops" in pop culture.
Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
Grades
5 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Grades
7 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book's dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.

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