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Laura Ecken and Her Second/Third-Grade Class
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This chapter provides an introduction to Laura’s classroom and her students. A transcription of a class meeting in which the students describe their out of school lives and the neighborhood in which they live provides a view of the students’ lives outside of school at the time they entered the class. The physical setup of the classroom is described and each of the students is introduced with a brief description as viewed during the first week of school.
Title: Laura Ecken and Her Second/Third-Grade Class
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This chapter provides an introduction to Laura’s classroom and her students.
A transcription of a class meeting in which the students describe their out of school lives and the neighborhood in which they live provides a view of the students’ lives outside of school at the time they entered the class.
The physical setup of the classroom is described and each of the students is introduced with a brief description as viewed during the first week of school.
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