Students in Ms. Boykins's eighth-grade ELA classes were engaged in PALS (Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies) as they discussed a non-fiction account of the 9/11 attacks called "Rescue at the Water's Edge" by Allison Friedman.

Students worked together to complete an objective summary with relevant details of the largest water rescue in history as recounted by the author and one of the heroes, then Coast Guard Officer Carlos Perez.

Pictured below on the right are students peer tutoring and completing the PALS activity.  On the left is Julie Vonier, who chose to interview one of her teachers, Mrs. Lisa Bowling, about her reaction, feelings and whereabouts regarding the 9/11 attack. The interview was part of a Scholastic Scope assignment in which students were allowed to choose a task from a Choice Board.