Middle and High School Ideas
Becoming a Good Creature topics & themes have relevance for all ages and in all subjects. Here are just some ideas secondary classes can do to make connections with the book. Please share what teachers are doing in your school!
All Schools (with Sources of Strength and/or Enrichment periods)
Essential Skills for Success, Mindfulness & Wellness lessons and activities
All Subjects:
Take a few minutes at the start of each class for an Essential Skills for Success or Community Building activity
Have students create a picture book on a topic they are studying to share with Elementary students
Art:
#OneBookDCSD art projects/contest
Broadcasting/Video Tech:
Create #OneBookDCSD commercials or videos to share with their school & sending to schools
English/Language Arts:
Write about how a teacher has impacted you (journal entries, poems, letters)
Use Becoming a Good Creature as a springboard for discussions about Point of View
Research projects/discussion of primary & secondary sources
Health/PE:
Mindful Yoga
Math:
Analyzing statistics
Creating charts & graphs
Music:
Performing for local community events
Science:
Research & discuss habitats
Microbiology
World Language:
Translate Becoming a Good Creature into language students are studying
Learn American Sign Language