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In
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(Edutopia Profile) february 2010 issue
“Your three presentations at Driscoll School today were fabulous, 5 star wonders. What a wonderful mix of storytelling and information. It was particularly impressive to see how you engaged our third grade students to the same degree as our students in grade 7 and 8. Your presentation included such a variety of ways to present information. The children were riveted from the demonstration of how to pack for a river trip to the great powerpoint display. The examples of how you keep a digital journal provided a great springboard to writing I know teachers will try. The students were so entranced by your adventures that we had to prise them out of their seats to go to lunch. Your writing spans so many topics we teach about in our schools. Your range of books made it clear to our students that you have traveled the world and brought it back to them. Students were in the library at the end of the day looking for your work. We can't wait to have you back!”
Amy Neale, Librarian, The Driscoll School, Brookline, MA
(Feb, 2009)
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Writing
Highlights
Article "Inca Treasure in the Cloud Forest"
Crossword puzzle
handouts
blanks and answers 
Keeping
a Journal
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(Prices) & Book Signing at Schools
Teachers
Share Classroom Exercises
"Our
goal is to develop a new 5th
grade state report project, which blends research
with adventure writing. Looking at the way we taught this unit last year, we
found that the research portion of this project was very beneficial to the
students. However, the writing portion was lacking in creativity and was very
fairly unmotivating to the students. This proposed project would maintain the
research portion, but would add creativity and excitement to the writing portion.
We will also add a portion which will help students to identify similarities
and differences between states and regions. "
student papers that came from this
unit
David Somoza and Brett Adams
Francis L. Stevens
Elementary School
Ballston Lake, NY
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