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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 17
   Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
   Books and webpages are gathered that focus on the work of African American poets and students explore the resources and find a poem to contribute to a poetry reading.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 4
   Celebrate National Library Week!
   Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 25
   Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.
   Students read examples of traditional Scottish ballads and use this information to write and perform their own ballads.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  March 26
   Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874.
   Students celebrate Frost's birthday by exploring his innovation in the sonnet form by studying poems and presenting them to the class.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 3
   Today is World Read Aloud Day.
   Students celebrate the power of words by reading aloud to their classmates and spreading the word of global literacy to their friends and family.