Junior Scholastic Magazines for Middle School Students
My students need a subscription to Junior Scholastic to explore current events and social studies content in our interdisciplinary literacy class.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Chavez's classroom raised $370
This project is fully funded
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it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
My talented middle school students are from the far southeast side of Chicago. My students love to read and to explore the world around them. We read for enjoyment and to become better readers, writers, and thinkers.
Our classroom serves as an oasis to explore, create, and share.
It is a space that fosters a love of reading and wonder. My students' enthusiasm for learning is contagious. Through high interest literature, collaborative conversations, and student-driven instruction, my students are rockin' it in our middle school literacy classroom.
My Project
Seventh and eighth grade students will spend the school year learning about the Constitution in middle school. To support the social studies curriculum, I am requesting a subscription to Junior Scholastic for our literacy classroom to develop reading comprehension while reinforcing social studies knowledge and skills relating to civics, history, geography, and debates. Students will use the articles to explore current events in relation to the Constitution.
While reading, we will ask ourselves: What is my position on the issue?
How can citizens respond to the issue in support or against the issue? Which amendment relates to this issue? How would we evaluate the author's claim? We will use the magazine articles to engage in various discourse strategies such as debates, mix-pair-shares, collaborative conversations, which will ultimately lead to argumentative writing in the form of speeches, essays, mixed media artwork, and more. The subscription to Junior Scholastic offers endless curriculum possibilities to enhance our literacy classroom.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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