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Creating a Memorial Day Poster Poem

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Does your class know about the meaning of Memorial Day? Discuss the history of the holiday in this lesson, which prompts elementary and middle schoolers to create word webs of ideas about the holiday. Additionally, they create poems based on their word webs. After combining the poems with illustrations on posters, they recite their poems for other classes and sing patriotic songs.

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poetry writing, poetry, illustrations, the united states civil war

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civil war, decoration day, brainstorming, illustrations, poetry writing, english language arts
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3rd - 6th
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English Language Arts
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