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Peer reviewedSakai, Alan; Leggo, Carl – Voices from the Middle, 1997
Describes how a seventh-grade teacher incorporated all the strands of language arts in a science unit on butterflies. Discusses insights learned in this journey of learning that honored the mystery of science as "knowing." Describes how teacher and students became actively engaged in a pedagogic experience that acknowledged the connections between…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Integrated Curriculum, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Peer reviewedMcCracken, Nancy Mellin; And Others – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Describes the classrooms of two middle-school science teachers, reporting what they have noted regarding gender issues in the classroom, and describing strategies they find to be effective in helping girls--and boys--resist the negative effects of gender-binding in the middle school years. Discusses gender issues in language arts and what can be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Females, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedBishop, Marion – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Examines the pressures girls in classrooms face as they reach adolescence and experience cultural norms that encourage the silencing of a young woman's voice as she grows into adulthood. Looks that the journal's potential to save that voice. Explores how classroom journals can be structured to help girls nurture and grow their voices. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Class Activities, Females, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedBernabei, Gretchen Shoopman – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Relates how one middle school teacher's small, private step against gang violence inspired her students to organize their own anti-violence activity (painting over gang graffiti), which in turn caused ripples into the community, the school district, and city hall. (SR)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Peace, School Community Relationship
Peer reviewedMcInnes, Michele – Voices from the Middle, 1995
Describes episodes of humor in a middle school classroom. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Humor, Interpersonal Communication, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedPope, Carol; Beal, Candy – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Describes the Power and Literacy for Disadvantaged Youth (PAL) project which includes more than 45 teachers from 20 different middle schools who are committed to work with at-risk students in a workshop atmosphere in their English language arts classrooms. Describes how each PAL teacher developed an implementation plan. Discusses what these…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedCoty, Sue – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Offers an account of the changes one teacher observed in her reading/writing workshop in a middle school classroom when she and her students took the time to focus on ways of talking to one another, building their speaking and listening skills. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Grade 7, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedJacobs, Carole – Voices from the Middle, 1994
Relates how one teacher restructured her classroom to use reading and writing workshops. Describes how three at-risk students in her classroom, in the course of the academic year, moved from being at risk of academic failure to being on the path to promise and success. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 7, High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Peer reviewedParker-Webster, Joan; Van Horn, Leigh – Voices from the Middle, 2000
Describes how two different middle school teachers transformed the study of vocabulary in their classrooms by engaging students' interest in words, moving the study of vocabulary into students' worlds through theatre and through word tickets and a student-created museum. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Junior High Schools, Language Attitudes, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedGullingsrud, Miles – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Discusses how a teacher of sixth- and seventh-grade primarily Mexican immigrants: (1) models being a second-language learner by working at Spanish; (2) provides an enjoyable school experience; (3) learns about students' culture and gives it respect; (4) seeks a detailed picture of where each English learner is academically; and (5) cultivates a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7
Peer reviewedBarbieri, Maureen – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Describes how the author used writers' notebooks with her students (grades 6-8), all Chinese immigrants, to find and express their memories and dreams, to find meaning in their experiences of change and loss; develop voice and a sense of audience; develop fluency in English; and find a growing sense of control over their new language and their new…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Intermediate Grades
