- Journal Writing
- Metaphor Unit Poems
- Billie Holiday's Song "Strange Fruit"
- "The Fox and the Goat": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable
- Recycled Poetry
- An Autobiographical Poem
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- International Cover Art for Harry Potter Lesson
- Defining Jazz Music
- An Immigrant's Story
- Write a Harry Potter Script
- Visualizing Jazz Scenes of the Harlem Renaissance
- Fall Haiku
- Tongue Twisters
- Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan
- Make a Harry Potter Board Game
- Inaugural Poetry
- Write a Letter to Jesse Owens
- Using a Double-Entry Journal with Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Harry Potter Haiku
- Who Writes History? Rethinking Columbus Day
- Emotion Similes
- Reading Games
- Holiday Poems
- Can You Hear a Story?
- Creating Opera
- Papier-Mâché Piggy Bank
- Reading and Defining Poetry
- Reading the Newspaper
- Anagrams
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