Besides being exposed to non-fiction text, my goal is to increase everyone's sensitivities to people with disabilities. Already the students have showed a lot of excitement about this assignment.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Mrs. Ricki Kurtz- 6th Grade English
The new Common Core Standards mandates the importance of students reading non-fiction text. In order to encourage this, today the students received a book report using the book Small Steps: The Year I got Polio by Peg Kehret. Peg spends the book describing the year she had polio. In addition to reading this book, the students are reading articles about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one by Chava Willig Levi. As part of their assignment, they need to create an invention that would help either Peg, Mrs Roosevelt, or Mrs Levi.
