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Guide Students with Handbook Activities

Share Your Hopes,
Express Your Feelings
Show Your Gratitude

Encourage students to reflect deeply before doing This activity is designed so students can express
this activity. Students should be inspired to find their hopes, share their gratitude, and set them
their voice and use it to say what's most important free in the universe with their very own, special
to them. They should gain understanding of the voices. Encourage students to see the connection
significance of having a voice – a true gift – which between their hopes and voice, and the role
through regular practice can be put to good use. gratitude plays in fully realizing both.

Help Them Dig Deeper – Research Project

Find out about a young person who has had something to say and has made their voice heard. What
was the issue they were concerned about? How did they follow up? Who heard their voice or saw
their actions? Did they have an impact on the world around them?

Encourage More Reading – at Home, at School

Young Voices Being Heard Gratitude Other Titles by
Peter H. Reynolds

Boxes for Katje Apple Cake: A Gratitude Be You!
Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Bear Says Thanks Dot
Emmanuel's Dream Elephant & Piggie: Thank You Happy Dreamer
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Book I'm Here
Gwendolyn Brooks Last Stop on Market Street Ish
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan Sincerely, Emerson North Star
Marvelous Cornelius Thankful Book Sky Color
One Plastic Bag Thanku: Poems of Gratitude Start with a Dot (Guided
Ryan & Jimmy: the Well in Africa We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga Journal)
Seeds of Change When Grandma Gives You a Word Collector
Sharuko: Peruvian Archeologist Lemon Tree
Story of Ruby Bridges

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