CA class completes civil rights project

BY RONI LEONARD
Mr. Randy Turner's eighth grade communication arts classes recently completed a research project on the civil rights movement.
The project consisted of a 1,000-word research paper, a multi-media presentation and an oral presentation over events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
In the past. Mr. Turner has had his students do the third quarter project over the Holocaust, but since students were researching that in seventh grade, he changed the topic to the Civil Rights Movement last year.
"I hope the students understand the importance of the Civil Rights Movement and how the it has shaped the country that we have today," Mr. Turner said.

(Photo: Amanda Welch, Dylan Rapp and Paige Young answer questions about their topic, the Birmingham Church Bombing, during their oral presentation, part of the third quarter research project in Mr. Randy Turner's eighth grade communication arts classes.