Language Arts, Standard 15. Identify and analyze how an author's choice of words appeals to the senses, creates imagery, suggests mood, and sets tone. In preparation for their research of local school history, students have learned interviewing skills and have written essays based on the answers they received. Students interviewed members of the Leverett Elementary School staff, and published their essays on the school website. Language Arts, Standard 2.
Students pose questions and conduct interviews in order to acquire new knowledge.
Students are interviewing senior citizens and other residents of the town who attended Leverett schools in the past century. Old photos will be scanned, and students will document the school memories of these people. Their work will be published on the History of Leverett section of the school website in May, 2001. History, Standard 3. Students frame questions through historical research, evaluate and employ information and evidence from primary and secondary sources, and apply it in written presentations.