- Volume 28, Issue 1, 2010

Start the year off with this enjoyable, accessible poetry activity centered on music and rhythm.

Drawing on insights from their own lives, students explore the concept of friendship in O. Henry’s short story “After Twenty Years” and in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.

Students engage in active learning through strategies such as an interactive word wall, a poetry activity based in rhythm and music, and a reading and discussion exercise that explores the nature of friendship.