Indianapolis Students Engaged in “Letters to the Next President” Campaign

Publication: TheIndyChannel.com
Date: August 28, 2008

Summary: Teacher-consultant Nikia Garland signed her students up for NWP's Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future project, seeing the contest between Barack Obama and John McCain as a way to use current events to inspire her class.

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Sen. Barack Obama's speech tonight will be historic. It can also be instructive. One IPS (Indianapolis Public Schools) teacher has asked her students to send letters to Sen. Obama and Sen. John McCain. This is all part of the National Writing Project. . . .

Many of the students didn't immediately embrace the letter-writing campaign but are warming to the challenge.

"I think it is about them capturing their voice, once they realize they actually have a voice and people want to hear it," Garland said. "That makes them more responsive."

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