Extension Activities

The Ohio Reading Road Trip includes a variety of activities to supplement the lessons in the Instructor's Guide. These activities will challenge your students to hear, to imagine, to see in metaphors, and to analyze and understand.

Novels

Lesson 2 - Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper Safety Tips for the 'Net Tolerance: Can't We All Just Get Along? Talk 2 Me: Chat, IM, and Text Messaging

Lesson 3 - The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton Follow the Drinking Gourd The Underground Railroad in Ohio Aaaaand … Action! "House of Dies Drear" the Movie Sweet Clara & the Freedom Quilt Dies Drear Identity Cards Dies Drear Fate Cards

Lesson 4 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Indian Mascots: Should They Stay or Go? The Phoebe Winterbottom Reader's Theater Founding Fathers: Native American Leaders

Short Fiction

Lesson 5 - "Death in the Woods" by Sherwood Anderson The Car Accident Point of View: Two Versions of the Same Story Bound Children and the Orphan Trains The Art is in the Details Something Creepy!

Poetry

Lesson 8 - Selected Poems by Contemporary Ohio Poets Extension Activity for "Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni Extension Activities for Contemporary Ohio Poets: The Poetry of Sports Extension Activities for Contemporary Ohio Poets: The Poetry of Leaving

Lesson 9 - Selected Poems by Rita Dove "Headdress" "Flash Cards" "The Buckeye" "Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967"

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