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Geography and history in songs: Students look at some historical paintings on the Internet and describe the things the paintings reveal about the places depicted in the paintings. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts); Provided by: National Geographic

From Friedan forward—considering a feminist perspective: In this lesson that focuses on feminism, students are challenged to think about how opinions develop and change based on such things as age, experience, time, and place. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying": Burying Addie's Voice: Students consider the role of Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, the effect she has on the other characters, and the impact created by Faulkner's use of multiple narrative perspectives on revelation of character and exploration of themes.... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Families in Bondage: Uses letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage to give students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African American family life. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Exploring audience and purpose with a single issue: In this lesson, students explore the rhetorical concept of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925—the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the unreliable biographers: Students become literary sleuths, attempting to separate biographical reality from myth. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Designing museum exhibits for “The Grapes of Wrath”: A multigenre project: In this lesson, students read The Grapes of Wrath and create multigenre projects that explore issues from the Depression era. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Decoding “The Matrix”: Exploring dystopian characteristics through film: In this lesson, students are introduced to the definition and characteristics of a dystopian work by watching video clips from The Matrix and other dystopian films. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Cultural change: Students examine the arguments used to win the vote for American women and explore the cultural dimension of these arguments. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Copyright infringement or not? The debate over downloading music: In this lesson, students investigate the controversial topic of downloading music from the Internet as part of a persuasive debate unit. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Connotation, character, and color imagery in The Great Gatsby.: Students explore the cultural connotations of the colors associated with the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and write a character analysis based on their findings. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Broken worlds: This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, provides a variety of options for conducting comparative analysis between two plays. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives: In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students select American authors to research. They create timelines and biopoems about their authors and then collaborate in teams to design and present a panel presentation where they role-play their authors. The final project... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Behind the masks: Exploring culture and self through art and poetry: This ReadWriteThink unit engages high school students in a study of the relationship between masks and cultures. Students research mask making from various cultures, draw sketches of the masks, and take notes that highlight the connections between the masks... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education, Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Audio listening practices: Exploring personal experiences with audio texts: In this lesson designed to develop students’ involvement with media literacy, students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to radio, music (e.g., songs on MP3 players, podcasting), and other streaming media or archived broadcasts. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Argument, persuasion, or propaganda? Analyzing World War II posters: In this lesson that can be used in both English and social studies classes, students analyze World War II posters to explore how argument, persuasion, and propaganda differ. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Analyzing the stylistic choices of political cartoonists: In this lesson, students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists' choices influence the messages that they communicate. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Analyzing the purpose and meaning of political cartoons: In this lesson, students evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

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