Students pen middle school survival guide
Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Students use the iPad to skim through the book they created. ESL students at Miles Middle School in Amityville were honored for creating an ebook for the iPad. The children show their book named "Surviving in Amityville." (Oct. 14, 2011)
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A group of some 60 middle-school students in Amityville last year studied "Swiss Family Robinson," a novel whose main characters are stranded in a new land and must adapt to survive.
With that story as a foundation, the Edmund W. Miles Middle School students collaborated on an 11-chapter e-book just published and soon to be offered on iTunes that is a guide to surviving middle school.
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