I Am America (All Grades)
- Create a poem describing
yourself by repeating the phrase “I
Am...”
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Let’s Play Baseball & Let’s Play Basketball (Grades
K-2)
- Pick a ball in any sport. Pretend you are the ball and write
down or share what you’d like to do in a day.
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Diamond Life (Grades 3+)
- Listen to a segment of music that has
no words and write down words to describe the sounds. The words
can be made up.
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IF (Grades 3+)
- Choose one photograph in the book and write as
if you are the person (or one of the people) in the photo
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Rimshots (Grades 3+)
- Write a list of excuses for not doing your homework.
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Hoop Kings & Hoop Queens (Grades 4+)
- Pick
a player in either book. Write down all the verbs in the poem.
Use those verbs to create your own poem.
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Short Takes (Grades 4+)
- Compile a collection
of haiku’s
written by the students.
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Twelve Rounds to Glory (Grades 4+)
- Have students
talk to a parent or adult and have them tell the student their
life story. Once they have their story, have them pick out the
interesting parts and create a poem in a style similar to the book.
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