LeEtta,

Your proposal sounds great.  I like the idea of keeping history alive by connecting students to the surviving members of a time that they are studying.  I also am happy to see that even though standards dictate that certain topics are not covered until another grade, that you (your school, curriculum, etc) provide access to this learning when the children need it it order to understand other events.

It's good that you already have familiarity with wikispaces.  Creating a site will be all new to me.  I created silly sites when I was in high school and college for my friends and I to play around with but have never needed to create a dynamic space.  I gave wikispaces a cursory look and dismissed it for another site but perhaps I will have to take another look.

-Tara C.

Yasmin,

I love Judy Blume!   This sounds like a great way to keep these kids interested.  Having the opportunity to discuss the book in a forum or a blog, with other students in another state, sounds like a great way to extend a novel beyond the classroom, not to mention across cultural boundries! Since Judy Blume write to a wide age range, wouldn't it be fun to also connect your students to younger students who are also reading a Blume novel?  I know teachers in younger grades are always looking for ways to have older kids model reading and comprehension skills.