2-25-09

The Adolescent Experience Adelphi University Spring 2009 Professor George Maurer gmaurer22@gmail.com

Review of chapters 4-6 in Garvin through the lens of your role in a [|literature circle] group.

Now that we have spent some time examining the characteristics of the adolescent child, let's move forward and discuss the history, structure and concept of the [|Middle School].

Essential Questions: What is a Middle School? What are the major characteristics of a Middle School? Why was there a need to move from the Junior High model to a Middle School model?

//See handout for copy of Power Point presentation.//

For next week...begin reading __This We Believe__, chapters 1-3.

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