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Dr. Seuss's Birthday!

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In honor of celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday, I created these templates that I will use to help motivate my students in thinking about the future.  After reading "Oh the Places You Will Go!" by Dr. Seuss to my students, they will write about the following topics.

1. Explain where you would like to be in 10 years!

2. Who is a role model you would like to emulate?

3. Name an important quality that will help you succeed in the future. Why?

4. What mountains and challenges will you climb and face?

Hopefully, this will inspire my students to think about the future! If you would like to try this out, click on the download below. :) 


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Download "Oh the Places You Will Go" Writing Prompt!

Students will also be writing excerpts from the story and making inferences to determine what that section of the story means on the following template.

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Some additional background information on Dr. Seuss...

Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Dartmouth College and Oxford.  He was a perfectionist in his work and he would sometimes spend up to a year on a book. It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book.  Geisel’s first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Streetwas rejected 27 times before it was finally published by Vanguard Press in 1937. The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957.  Green Eggs and Ham in 1960.  (Could it have been that long ago?)  Geisel’s birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day.

Some quotes from Dr. Seuss, "Oh the Places You Will Go!":

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” 

“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.” 

“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.” 

“You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. 
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.” 



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