Middle School Language Arts

http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/win2007/pinballs/index.htm
This article by Judy Lambert and Tony Sanchez details an e-mail and video conferencing project across the  curriculum, a primary purpose of which was to teach about tolerance and cultural diversity.   Students began by reading Betsy Byars’ The Pinballs (1993), a book about three foster children.  It was to be the springboard for conversation and collaboration between two classrooms [...]

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