Students write to other eighth grade students all in different towns and states.
As the responses arrive, they are plotted onto a map. The students have a purpose for writing and love the idea of connecting with other students all over the U.S. Randall Roe's Physical Science students get the opportunity to fly a model Estes rocket. It is fired from the football field to an approximate height of 800 feet. Karen Yolton's 12th grade English students recite the first eighteen lines of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales in Middle English. While studying this unit, each class begins with the students saying the recitation together.