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Peggy Moss

Peggy Moss is a freelance writer and former civil rights attorney based in Freeport, Maine. She the author of the award-winning children's book Say Something.
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LGBT Students Are Still at Risk

On Monday, LGBT students’ rights were vindicated in a comprehensive settlement with Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District over its policies that hindered teachers from effectively responding to anti-gay bullying—policies that may have contributed to some of the district’s recent suicides. Then on Tuesday, in the afterglow of this historic victory, the Utah Senate passed its own discriminatory bill (HB 363) prohibiting educators from teaching about, or even talking about, homosexuality.
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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
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Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a distinguished journalist, educator and activist. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) he originated the idea of freedom schools as a part of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. He began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997 Cobb was a National Geographic staff member. He is the coauthor, with civil rights organizer
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Word Work

Word Wall

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from the texts students are reading.
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6-8 9-12
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L.6-12.4, L.6-12.5, L.6-12.6
July 19, 2014