(DOWNLOAD) "Ms. Palmer on Second Street (Storytelling)" by Social Work " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Ms. Palmer on Second Street (Storytelling)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 167 KB
Description
In the community surrounding Second Street, slightly more than 58 percent of the households are headed by women, 32 percent of all the residents live in poverty, and almost 70 percent of the residents are people of color (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990). Such statistics usually condemn children like those who live in the Second Street community to low expectations and high fears about their capacity to learn. However, in Ms. Palmer's fourth grade classroom at Second Street Elementary School, most visitors would be surprised by those statistics. The colorful mobiles that hang from the ceiling and the intriguing artwork that adorns the walls almost blind a guest to the school's 19th century structure. Mostly, a visitor sees 30 fourth-grade children learning. Indeed, this is a class of published writers, the authors of Trouble Sleeping. STORYTELLING AS AN ETERNAL FORM OF SELF-AFFIRMATION