St. Patrick's Day Blarney

Introduction

• Write the word "football" on a poster chart visible to your entire class.
• Invite students to turn and tell a neightbor what "football" means and where it comes from, in two sentences or less.
• Draw a T-chart below the word "football" and label one column definition and the other column origin.
• Call your students' attention to the T-chart and explain:
  • the column labeled definition means "word meaning".
  • the column labeled origin means "where something comes from".
• Solicit and list several details for each column about "football" from your students.
• Tell your class they will learn to define words and phrases in a similar way, using an Irish tale in celebration of St. Patrick's Day!