Other than clean closets, one of the nice things about closet-cleaning is the treasures one finds. This is one of my favorites... Jeff's poetry book from his freshman year in HS. Students were required to write 12 different types of poems – e.g. Haiku, ode, sonnet, simile, etc. – then type or hand-write them (remember this was before computers!), illustrate them and put them in a cover. A "sports kid" from day one, Jeff chose to write all baseball-themed poems and then decided the only appropriate cover would be a page from a baseball score book. Yes, he got an A and nice comments on his "great cover" and "very great creativity!" Who says sports don't pay off in the classroom?!
