Mother’s Day observed

Dust storm sweeps Great Plains

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  Lesson Plan / Art & Culture

  Dust Bowl Days

  Students will be introduced to this dramatic era in our nation's history through photographs, songs and interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl.

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Limerick Day: Edward Lear, English author who popularized limericks, is born

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  Lesson Plan / Literature & Language Arts

  Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense

  This lesson plan explores the characteristics of the nonsense poem as developed by British poet Edward Lear and focuses on Lear’s well-known poem “The Owl and the Pussy Cat.” Students learn to recognize poetic devices such as rhyme, syllabification, and meter, and figures of speech such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification, by analyzing nonsense poems and writing one of their own.

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  Lesson Plan / Literature & Language Arts

  Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was…

  In this lesson, students will learn the form of the limerick poem, practice finding the meter and rhyme schemes in various Lear limericks, and write their own limericks.

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