In Praise of the Body

1. Create a deck of 10 word cards for each student in your class by writing the names of different body parts (nose, head, elbow, backbone, and so on) on individual three-by-five-inch index cards. It’s a good idea to choose the body parts yourself, thus avoiding any sexual or scatological references.

2. Ask each participant to select 5 cards from her deck.

3. Ask students to write a chant using the words on their cards:

Praise my head because…
Praise my feet because…
Praise my nose because…
Praise my spirit because…
Praise my backbone because…

From the WritersCorps book “Jump Write In!”