Mark Snyder’s eighth-grade government students at Shirland School have been studying the meaning of citizenship. As part of their study, students have learned that citizens have several rights, responsibilities, and duties. One of the responsibilities of citizenship is to be engaged in your community.

As a way to put that responsibility into practice and as a culmination of our study, students selected a topic of interest or concern, researched it, and wrote a letter to the editor on that topic.

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