Teaching the Word and the World to Middle School Students
Merna Ann Hecht Award-winning poet and storyteller Merna Ann Hecht visits middle school classrooms on a regular basis as part of Seattle’s Writers in the Schools Program. One of her goals as a participant in this project is to use cross-disciplinary work to help students develop their critical thinking skills and creativity. Here she shares the results of a six-week inquiry into the broad theme of the journey that had her students writing poetry while learning about personal stories, about the Japanese internment camps in World War II, and about African American history.
Talking Points, Volume 16, Number 1, October 2004
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