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1. Professional Development | November 18–21, 2021
   2021 NCTE Annual Convention
   Each November thousands of literacy educators from across the country make the journey to a Convention that inspires their practice and rejuvenates their profession.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
   Through Eileen Murphy Buckley's 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives
   Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 19
   Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
   Students practice the Pre-AP strategy called SOAPSTone, identifying important parts of the Gettysburg Address and comparing it with John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
   This document provides a research-based resource that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
   Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
8. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
   Accent on meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry offers practical ways of teaching students about the close connections between the meaning, rhythm, and meter in poetry.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 25
   A Christmas Carol was the first book transmitted over radio!
   Students write a script for A Christmas Carol on a level that primary students can read and perform. Older students record the performance and create a website to showcase photographs.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs
    This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.

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