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Community Outreach with Mrs. Heidi Older generations have so much to teach us—if we take the time to listen. Every community has people who have lived long, full lives with valuable stories, knowledge, and skills to share. In this summer project/outreach, students will make friends with a resident of a retirement home. They will listen to the story of their new friend’s life, and craft a biography capturing the moments that made their life meaningful! In this summer session students will work on interviewing skills, planning and drafting, writing biographies, analyzing a mentor text, research skills, creating a time line of a life, letter writing as they make pen pals with their senior friend, presenting as they will present their biographies to the senior center, and empathy for others.
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