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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 10
   Newbery Medal winner Christopher Paul Curtis was born in 1953.
   Students brainstorm a list of civil rights-related issues and use the Acrostic Poems interactive to create poems.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 18
   Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
   Students identify characteristics of Carver's work and compare them to other authors, as well as to literary minimalism. Students then write original poems or short stories in minimalist style.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 31
   Today is Walt Whitman's birthday.
   Students write and illustrate their own children's stories using the text from a Walt Whitman poem.