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Amanda Gorman
Post December 30 2022

Classroom activity: Write a New Year poem inspired by Amanda Gorman's 'New Day's Lyric'
Read Amanda Gorman's poem marking the end of a difficult year and then write your own
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Educator Voices October 22 2022

Educator Voice: How teaching with comics gives kids the superheroes they desperately need
Watch these highlights from Ep. 2 of Educator Voice on teaching with comics
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Student Voices July 12 2022

Student Recommends: 'My First and Only Love,' a novel about 20th century Palestine through one girl's eyes
Student Eshaan Mani recommends Sahar Khalifeh's novel that spans Palestinian history in the 20th century
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Daily News Lesson July 11 2022

How these elementary students paid homage to Native Americans who first lived on their school land
Have your students research what Native American tribes lived on the land your school is located on and murals in your community.
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Lesson Plan June 29 2022

Lesson plan: What's in the frame? How media literacy helps students watch and dissect the news

Learn how editorial choices about what goes in the camera frame influence our understanding of news and media
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Daily News Lesson April 20 2022

Citizen poets share details of their pandemic lives in ‘Dear Vaccine’
Learn about a collection of poems written by everyday people in response to the pandemic and contribute your own
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Lesson Plan April 08 2022

Lesson plan: Build a 'media literacy survival kit'

In this media literacy lesson, students design media literacy survival kits to help combat misinformation and conspiracy theories online
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Daily News Lesson April 06 2022

Activity: Watch Ocean Vuong’s take on grief, then write your own poem
Learn about poet Ocean Vuong and write your own poem
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Lesson Plan April 06 2022

Lesson plan: How to fight truth decay through media literacy

In this media literacy lesson, students learn tools for verifying information online and spotting propaganda and conspiracy theories
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Student Voices March 30 2022

Student Recommends: Tahereh Mafi’s novel 'An Emotion of Great Delight'
In this first entry of our new Student Recommends series, Eshaan Mani says, "As an Indian American, I could identify with some aspects of Shadi’s struggle to find her place living between cultural lines — sometimes she feels like she’s leading two lives..."
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