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Scali, Nancy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes numerous ways in which a multimedia study of Africa provides rich opportunities for students to combine art, writing, literature, and social studies. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
Cox, Beth – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a two-week bilingual poetry writing unit that combined a creative writing class and a Spanish class and that compiled a classbook of students' poems in the two languages. (SR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Creative Writing, High Schools, Integrated Activities
Webb, Kurt – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a project in which students combined personal narratives, drawings, and Japanese woodblock prints. Includes three examples of students' stories and prints. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary Education
Pruzan, Kathy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Discusses "Private Eye," an approach to teaching which focuses on developing students as artists, writers, and scientists. Describes how this approach uses the jewelers loupe to examine everyday objects 5 or 10 times bigger, thus altering students' way of viewing the world through the change of scale and through analogy-provoking questions. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Freehand Drawing, Integrated Activities