Keeping up with Mr. Lane, Part 2

I wanted to share this with you before the school year ended but, obviously, I didn’t.  Please take a moment and check out the new blog.  It is being designed with you in mind.   Just follow this link http://mrlane.edublogs.org/ to get to Mr. Lane’s Blog (yes, it is different than Mr. Lane’s Effective Reading Blog).  Once there, [...]

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

In the Epilogue of The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 the author, Christopher Paul Curtis, writes:
Many heroic people died in the struggle for civil rights.  Many others were injured or arrested or lost their homes or businesses.  It is almost impossible to imagine the courage of the first African American children who walked into [...]