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Draw What You Hear
A listening and drawing exercise

Have students make a drawing or create a pictorial series after you read aloud the eyewitness account on the page. You might want to simplify the language, but the poetry in the piece should generate images in the students’ minds.

eyewitness account

Constitution and Guerriere by A.L. Garneray, 1815
Constitution and Guerriere
A.L. Garneray, c.1815
Courtesy USS Constitution Museum, Boston


Have on Hand-
crayons or colored pencils and paper

 
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