Westwood Middle School students (left to right) Josh Storkson, Mika Cornell, Morgan Bro, Kylie Mitchell and Aaron Heal stand with their projects and in front of the stars they created with classmates expressing their thoughts about what they would like the United States to be like as part of a civil rights assignment in teacher Jennifer Ireland's English Language Arts and social studies classes.
By JOHN McCALLUM
Editor
Sixth-graders in Westwood Middle School teacher Jennifer Ireland's English Language Arts and social studies classes have not only been learning about the history of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, they've been expressing that newfound knowledge physically.
The students have been involved in several projects centered on materials provided in class, beginning with reading and discussing the 1995 book "The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963." Written by Christopher Paul Curtis, the historical-fiction book recounts the experiences of the Watsons, an African-American family li...
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