All the seventh grade students participated in a service for a “dead” word. Dead words are words that are overused in our language and the goal was to put them to “rest”. The task was to create a limerick of how their word met its demise. Each limerick followed the rhyme scheme of A A B B A. Then he/she received a “gravestone” to decorate and add their limerick poem. The students also had to create a list words that replace the dead word with synonyms and antonyms to add to the tombstone. The classes then had ceremonies where they were able to read their limerick aloud and tell their classmates how their word met its demise. Students shared the word choices to use instead of the overused dead word in their “survived by” section of the tombstone. There were a lot of students that put forth a lot of time and effort and the final projects show this!
