This is the extract for our presentation:
A Literature Exploration of Peace Agents Working for Change
—Gay Ward, Professor Emeritus, UW-River Falls, River Falls, WI
—Margaret Phinney, Professor Emeritus, UW-River Falls, River Falls, WI
Participants will engage with multiple texts that feature multiage, multicultural protagonists who have made positive changes in their social environments to work for peace. Creative text activities will support character and plot analysis and text comparison. Strategies suggested and experienced in the workshop to support these investigations lend themselves to differentiating instruction as well as inviting students to use critical and creative thinking skills and language skills to make connections between multiple disciplines. Participants will also have the opportunity to create some peace packet literacy strategies.