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HOLLAND A group of middle school students is looking to use poetry to share what they’ve learned about the refugee crisis with the community.
A class of English Language Arts students in the Hope College Program for the Academically Talented at Hope (PATH) has been studying the global refugee crisis through various texts, including the novel “Refugee” by Alan Gratz.
The unit was guided by three essential questions:
“What causes cruelty between people of different nations?”
“How does empathy contribute to human understanding?”
“What is an effective response to social injustice?”
To culminate the learning experience, students wrote poems reflecting on the experience, which will be shared in upcoming editions of The Sentinel.
Any American adult can tell you where they were on 9/11. However, a new generation of Americans don’t have that memory. To them, the horrific events of
Noteworthy New Releases for Children and Teens: February 2021 publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jan 29, 2021
Helped by big gains in downloadable audio sales, overall sales of audiobooks posted eight consecutive years of double-digit increases through 2019, according to the Audio Publishers Association’s annual sales survey (conducted by independent research firm InterQ). And 2020 looks like it will have a similarly sunny result. In its monthly StatShot report, the Association of American Publishers said sales of downloadable audio from trade publishers were up 15.2% through the first 11 months of the year over the same period in 2019, offsetting declines in the much smaller physical audio market. Downloadable audio found more of a home at independent bookstores last year, with Libro.fm reporting that the number of units sold through indies in 2020 jumped by 200% over 2019.