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fill out sheet for your journal.

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Each member of the group presents a student to the full class. Student #1 (first birthday) will introduce student #2, student #2 will introduce student #3, student #3 will introduce student #4, and student #4 will introduce student #1.

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Listen carefully to all of the presentations because at the end of the session you will each be asked to introduce one member of the group to the rest of the class.

Take notes to help remember information he or she would want to share about each person.

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Each person in the group is going to introduce him or herself by sharing the objects in the sack. The order of sharing will be determined by birth date. The person who has the closest birthday to January 1 will go first; the person with the next birthday will go next; and so on.

When the first person has been identified, the remainder of the group will ask, "‹Name›, what's in your sack, what's in your sack?" The student will pull out an object or picture from his or her sack and begin to explain it. (For example, Matthew pulls out a hockey card from his sack, and shares with the group that he is an avid hockey fan. He has been playing hockey since the age of 10. Steve Yzerman is his favorite player and the Detroit Red Wings is his favorite team.) Each person has a total of five minutes to share all three or four objects or pictures from his or her sack.

When the student has finished presenting the objects, each student in the group will ask one question. Just like in the poem, these questions should help them find out more about each of their classmates.

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GRAB A SACK!  You have 5 minutes or so to put 3-5 items in the sack that represent who you are.

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Is it some mushrooms or is it the moon?

Is it love letters or downy goosefeathers?

Or maybe the world's most enormous balloon?

What's in the sack? That's all they ask me.

Could it be popcorn or marbles or books?

Is it two years' worth of your dirt laundry,

Or the biggest ol' meatball that's ever been cooked?

Does anyone ask me, "Hey, when is your birthday?"

"Can you play Monopoly?" "Do you like beans?"

"What is the capital of Yugoslavia?"

Or "Who embroidered that rose on your jeans?"

No, what's in the sack? That's all they care about.

Is it a rock or a rolled-up giraffe?

Is it pickles or nickels or busted bicycles?

And if we guess it, will you give us half?

Do they ask where I've been, or how long I'll be stayin',

Where I'll be goin', or when I'll be back,

Or "How do?" or "What's new?" or "Hey, why are you blue?"

No, all they keep asking is, "What's in the sack?"

"What's in the sack?" I'm blowin' my stack

At the next one who asks me, "What's in the sack?"

Oh no. Not you, too!

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Is it some mushrooms or is it the moon? Is it love letters or downy goosefeathers? Or maybe the world's most enormous balloon? What's in the sack? That's all they ask me. Could it be popcorn or marbles or books? Is it two years' worth of your dirt laundry, Or the biggest ol' meatball that's ever been cooked?