Students write an acrostic poem in an epic style by writing about a hero, real or not, dead or alive, by using the first the letters of that person's name to write each line of the poem.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
