When Sherry Swain was teaching writing to first-graders, she sometimes took a lesson from E.B. White’s classic, “Charlotte’s Web.”
She would read the first sentence “‘Where's Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.” and tell her students, “You know, that wasn’t E.B. White’s first draft. His first attempt started, ‘Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived on a farm.’”
44 infected in new coronavirus outbreaks at 9 institutions, says Michigan’s Jan. 18 school outbreak report
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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A total of 44 students and staff at eight K-12 schools and a college have been infected by coronavirus in new school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, Jan. 18, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
That includes 14 cases involving students at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie and 10 cases involving students at Hastings High School.
There also were clusters involving four people or less at Benzie Central High School, Island City Academy in Eaton Rapids, St. Gerrard Elementary in Lansing, Woodbridge Elementary in Zeeland, Ridge Wood Elementary in Northville, and the public elementaries in Marlette and Deckerville.
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