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'Project Write' spells success
While some nutritionists may argue with the sentence "hamburgers are good," it is whetting the appetite's of Migrant Education first-graders hungry to learn how to write. On July 14, Kern County Superintendent of Schools' Migrant Education Trainer Hopie Gomez had a large painting of a hamburger with all its juicy ingredients hanging from the chalkboard in a classroom at Browning Road School in McFarland. Gathered around her were summer school students anxious to contribute what they knew about hamburgers. In the back of the class, their summer school teacher, Susie Robles, watched and took notes. Written in indelible ink on construction paper were words the students had come up with to describe a hamburger. More
Posted: 7/19/04; 11:06:27 AM | Permalink(#)
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