Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.

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.

Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.