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Justice for All? To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill: Following a study of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, students will view the courtroom scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill and determine factors which influenced the verdicts in each trial.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.

Paired writing: Hoover and FDR: Taking on the persona of FDR and Hoover, students will write responses to citizens seeking help with real world problems.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Angie Panel Holthausen.

Picturing America at the turn of the twentieth century: Students link together the literature and the history of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Questions guide students as they study visual documents. Students also read the teacher's choice of two widely anthologized short stories and an excerpt from a best-selling novel of the period. Two exercises will raise student awareness of the impact that visual images have on their lives: one that is based on internet advertising and a second that results in a student-produced scrapbook.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Scott Culclasure.

Building Vietnam War scavenger hunts through web-based inquiry: After reading a book about the Vietnam War, students, working in small groups, adopt the perspective of members of a group involved in the war (e.g., soldier, nurse, doctor, photojournalist, TV reporter) and conduct Internet research to explore how that particular group was affected. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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); Provider: 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); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible": Students examine some of Arthur Miller's historical sources and read a summary of the historical events in Salem. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Examining transcendentalism through popular culture: This lesson, presented by ReadWriteThink, examines the elements of transcendentalism and challenges students to find examples of the literary movement in popular culture. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments: In this lesson that focuses on the art of persuasion and argumentation, students use a hypothetical situation to predict and articulate the audience’s predicted resistance to their arguments. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: National Geographic

Identifying and understanding the fallacies used in advertising: Students examine the fallacies that they encounter daily through exposure to advertising. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Paying attention to technology: Exploring a fictional technology: This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Perspectives on the slave narrative: This lesson introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today: the slave narrative. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Poetry: Sound and sense: In this lesson, students read and listen to several poems while concentrating on the author's language choices. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Propaganda techniques in literature and online political ads: This lesson suggests using Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to introduce students to propaganda techniques used in literature and popular culture. This short unit would be appropriate to use with various novels and when discussing advertising campaigns used in government elections. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 10–12 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

The pros and cons of discussion: This comprehensive lesson challenges students to discuss the question, “Are people equal?” and compare their answers about current society to answers to the same question about Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Varying views of America: In this lesson, students work in a collaborative setting to examine the ways that perspective influences how individuals vary in their tone toward similar experience based on their point of view. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE