SuitabookBelonging in a new class
Students from schools across the city enter one class and face new challenges while wondering how they will fit in.
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Carolyn Meyer - Author
This is a school-community story about pupils who respond to a fundraising challenge by sharing personal heritage through a jointly made book. Its central interest is how a collaborative project may help students understand themselves and each other.
The seventh-grade class at Rio Grande Middle School in Albuquerque is a unique group. Coming from schools all over the city, the students are facing new challenges and wondering how they'll fit in. When they are asked to raise money for the school, the kids decide to write and sell a book. They will all contribute something about their heritage that is personal and important. Filled with stories, traditions, and recipes, the book is a big success. Best of all, the kids learn something--about themselves and about one another.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a school-community story about pupils who respond to a fundraising challenge by sharing personal heritage through a jointly made book. Its central interest is how a collaborative project may help students understand themselves and each other.
Students from schools across the city enter one class and face new challenges while wondering how they will fit in.
Each student contributes something about their heritage that is personal and important, including stories, traditions and recipes.
The pupils decide to write and sell a book to raise money for their school, and the book becomes a success.
Pay attention to whose traditions are included, how individual contributions are treated, and whether the successful book creates lasting understanding or only a temporary sense of connection.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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