Kentucky: Muhammad Ali

Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, I’m updating our past history lesson to make it a bit more useful. Right now, it’s a fun quick little history lesson, but not all that useful. It was part of our Kentucky Unit, but he could also be part of a unit on Civil Rights for US history lessons. So, this Muhammad Ali lesson can fit into lots of different areas. It’s a nice small little lesson to go into many different areas.

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Muhammad Ali lesson resources

When I first wrote this post, we didn’t have YouTube, I looked up Muhammad Ali to find some good videos on him, and most of them are either videos of his fights, or clips from various interviews.

In case you did not know, Muhammad Ali was quite good at turning a catchy phrase. This will be the inspiration for the assignment.

But, let me give you the two videos I decided to share for him:

I was rather surprised to learn Cartoon Network had educational videos, but there you go.

Next this is from Hey! Guess What, which is a channel I find rather annoying, but they have decent information, so you decide whether you are willing to endure the psychic damage from the video.

Now, let’s look at some books you might pick up. For whatever reason I did not write down the books I used, ACK, almost 15 years ago.

HOW WAS IT ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO?

Okay, I’m just more than a little weirded out by that. Books, let me check my library. I will not have read these, unless noted otherwise, but I will comment what I know about the books.

• Muhammad Ali: the people’s champion
• Muhammad Ali– I’ve heard good things about this series, I personally don’t like the illustration style, but other people say good things about it
• Muhammad Ali: a champion is born
• I am Muhammad Ali– another popular biography series, I like the illustration style more

Muhammad Ali catchphrase writing lesson

Back to 2011 Ticia:

One of the things I love about doing this (Future Ticia says geography lessons) is what I learn too.  For instance, I never knew where Muhammad Ali was from, or really anything about him beyond that he boxed and his catchphrase.

After reading it (whatever book that I did not say comments Future Ticia), of course we had to come up with our own catchphrases like Ali did.

Of course, their catchphrases weren’t polished or metered.

 It was more like:

•  I run fast and punch hard.
• I’m like a master ninja and will defeat you!
• I can run and dance faster than anyone.

And that was where Past Ticia 2011 left it, no wrap-up. That’s it. So, instead, I’m going to add in a few things.

Creating catchphrases is hard. There is a reason ad executives are paid a lot of money. It is a combination of short and rolling off the tongue.

Like when I had to figure out a catchphrase for my blog, I had to write and rewrite and rework it until I came up with “learning adventures at the speed of fun,” and even then I don’t think it’s great, but it gets the idea across of what I’m trying for.

So, if you were to create a catchphrase for yourself, what would you write?

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