Somerville School Library Buzz: June 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

Final Middle Grades Projects

Teen Pregnancy- Brenda, Paula, Casey

Teen Suicide- Marianne, Colleen, Krystal

Dylan, Matt, Mike- Recycling

Joy and Olivia- Endangered Animals

Bio Terrorism- Srijan, Jake, Michael

Skateboarding - Daishawn and Jules

Lin, Sammy and Joey- Littering

Achilles and Brigid- Genetically Modified Corn

Recycling- Paul and Jimmy

Bukhari- Endangered Animals

Third World Countries- Lexi and Chelsea

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

As a finale to our year long Middle Grades Project we invited Sidewalk Sam to the West Somerville . As a class we created a mural in the playground. The mural had a peace dove in the center surrounded by representations of our middle grades topics. Each 7th grade student filled a square with colorful chalk, and were directed to put down some expression that shows how we can make the world a better place. Sidewalk Sam's peace dove project started as a way to help curb youth violence around Boston. Sidewalk expressed his concern with using guns and hateful graffiti to settle disputes. " If your allowed to put symbols of anger and hate in the community, you should never allow those symbols to be unchallenged. There should be teenagers that say, I will not let this stand". So far Sidewalk, his wife Tina and several others from the community have painted over 700 peace doves around the city that read " Stop Violence and Create Peace".