Title – Word Funeral

By – Amanda Stockton

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Grade Level – 6-8

Getting Ready:

• Have a list of commonly used words. Such as like, cool, bad, sad, etc.
  
• Tombstone cutouts
  
• Candles (Get administration approval prior)
  
• Have each word’s eulogy or obituary written. (The cheesier the better)

Process:

• Have candles lit and lights out
  
• Have tombstones ready with the dead words written on them.
  
• Have an elaborate story of how you are a killer, a killer of the English language.
  
• Introduce each word and display it on the wall.
  
• Let students know these words are dead and cannot be used again in the classroom.
  
• Turn the lights back on and blow out all the candles. Explain that just like all deaths life goes on and so must our use of the English language.

Next:

• From there move on to Word Phoenix.

E-Mail

Amanda Stockton

!