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Peer reviewedFowler, Marian Hale – Middle School Journal, 1994
Describes a special language arts/social studies unit inspired by students' response to a Channel One newscast about starving Somalians. Letter-writing and fund-raising activities helped these middle-level students make closer connections with the world, construct powerful meanings around their own concerns and those of society, integrate self and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Current Events, Fund Raising, Intermediate Grades
