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Peer reviewedWilde, Jack – Voices from the Middle, 1995
Describes three fifth-grade students in the author's school who used humor in their writing assignments. Offers samples of their work and their observations about it. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Humor, Intermediate Grades, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewedTracy, Janet – Voices from the Middle, 2000
Describes how the author's 6 middle school students living in a village in the Yukon, 100 miles off the road system just below the arctic circle, enthusiastically wrote stories or poems about their lives. The students shared their works via an online electronic conferencing system with students from the unimaginably different landscape of the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Language Arts, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedFishman, Andrea R. – Voices from the Middle, 1996
Reports on a study of stories written by eighth graders in three very different schools, stories carrying powerful messages about how girls understand their place in the world. Finds that, in one set of stories, females control their lives only as long as they are "good," and in the other set, autonomous female protagonists fail (often for no…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Females, Grade 8, Junior High School Students
