Students develop computer skills in word processing, image digitizing, and e-mail. A folk tale provides an opportunity to learn customs, traditions, beliefs, and views. I could have prevented it. Its purpose is to use art and the medium of creative writing to demonstrate that despite linguistic, cultural, ethnic and racial differences, teenagers around the world share the same hopes, fears, interests and concerns. This project has received an award from Columbia University for Best High School Publication in the United States two years in a row.
Students develop computer skills such as word processing, image digitizing, and e-mail.
They find meaning in doing it for they have a that their work be published. Depends on individual teachers. At this level students are able to read and write argumentative pieces, discuss book and movie reviews and write articles for school magazines. They can engage in advanced on-line argumentative discussions. Articles submitted to TC are placed in the iearn.tc web based forum for the purpose of generating discussion about the issues being considered for inclusion in the magazine.