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11. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Explore Your Reading Self
    In this activity teens are encouraged to explore their reading history as they remember books they liked reading as children and then revisit these old favorites.
12. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children's Book about the Weather
    Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.
13. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Activity & Project
    Make a Magnetic Poetry Set
    Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.
14. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Music in Movies: You Pick the Soundtrack
    Explore how music can have an emotional impact on a scene in a movie, then help teens write and film a scene of their own.
15. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    MyTube: Make a Video Public Service Announcement
    Invite teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.
16. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs
    Work with a teen to create a wiki with everything people should know about the teen's top ten favorite songs—and your favorite songs as well! Then invite friends to add their favorite songs too.
17. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Activity & Project
    Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
    Look at different online baseball trivia questions to see how they are written. Then have children write their own questions and play a trivia game.
18. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Rate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
    High school friends gather together for a viewing party of a movie, at home or the theater, then participate in a salon critiquing the merits of the movie.
19. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Recording Family Stories
    Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members.
20. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Soundtrack for My Life
    In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
    

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