Students will report on a story relevant to their community, while also growing their critical media literacy skills.

Young writers imagine a world that has lost their home city due to various threats: environmental, cultural, and supernatural.

Students will exchange letters with students from different classes or schools. By listening to others’ stories and sharing stories of their own, students will practice to read and write with empathy.

Students write personal and fictional narratives inspired by Frankenstein. Prompts include: misunderstood monsters, fears and horrors, a science experiment gone wrong, and rewriting the story.

Students will use music as a lens to learn about a historical period and research primary and secondary sources to write their own liner notes.