Welcome back Sally Walker!

Woodland Middle School’s 6^th graders will welcome back award-winning author Sally Walker on Tuesday, December 2^nd.  She will visit with all 6^th graders to talk specifically about the non-fiction writing process.  She will share how she gets her ideas, how she researches and organizes her information and  the revision process. 

A smaller group of specially selected students will be invited to a Sandwiches with Sally event at lunch time.  

New Graphic Novel - Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier

How many of you keep a journal?  What would happen if 100 years from now someone were to find and read your journal entries?  Would your journal give a complete account of what your life was like in 2014?  In this new book, readers experience journal entries from an unknown soldier living in Paris during the first two months of World War I.

The original journal was found in a trash pile by the French artist, Barroux, and turned into this detailed, first hand account of the beginnings of World War I in Paris.  The drawings were created by Barroux, but the words are the actual entries from the journal. Readers are able to understand what ordinary men went through when drafted and forced to leave their families behind.

A great read for anyone interested in the military or history!