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=Boone Middle School= Shelley S. Boone Middle School 225 S 22nd Street Haines City, FL 33844 Level of the School: middle school 6-8 Enrollment (overall) 963 Enrollment by gender Male 500 Female 463 Enrollment by race/ethnicity Black, non-Hispanic: ** 218 Free lunch eligible 685 Reduced lunch eligible 89 Migrant Students 90 (SIP) Level of the School: Enrollment (overall) Enrollment by gender Enrollment by race/ethnicity Free lunch eligible Reduced lunch eligible Migrant Students If after several tries you cannot get the information on your school you may either get it another way (from web site, etc) or you may select a different school
 * Step 1 ** : Choose a school in county school district where most of your group members work. **(SANDI)**
 * American Indian/Alaskan Native: ** 2
 * Asian/Pacific Islander: ** 2
 * Hispanic: ** 491 **
 * White, non-Hispanic: ** 250

** Step 2 ** : Choose a topic for a general emphasis collection that fits with what you know about your school, its curriculum, and its students.

__Immigration__
Our emphasis collection will focus on the experience of people who leave their home country to come to the United States; immigration to the United States. We chose this topic because 50% of Boone Middle School's population is Hispanic. Many of the Hispanic students have immigrated into the United States or have family members who have left their home countries looking for a better life in the United States. In addition, there are non-Hispanic students at Boone who may have immigrated or who may family or friends who have immigrated to the United States. Also, the staff of the school is very diverse. According the 2007-2008 school improvement plan, the staff includes teachers from Africa, Puerto Rico,Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, and Mexico. There are others who are multi-lingual speaking Portuguese, French, Arabic, Haitian-Creole, and Spanish. Even the secretarial staff is a mix, one African-American, two white, and three from Puerto Rico. Additionally, part of the sixth grade Social Studies curriculum includes lessons on immigration, what are immigrants, and why people migrate. This is especially relevant to sixth graders, as they have all recently "emigrated" to Boone from an elementary school, where they may have been very comfortable, to a much larger, more involved middle school. Sixth graders in particular, can relate to the feelings that immigrants may experience in a move to a new country. The student will: SS.B.1.3.5 Understand ways in which regional systems are interconnected.  SS.B.2.3.1 Understand the patterns and process of migration and diffusion throughout the world.  SS.B.2.3.2 Know the human and physical characteristics of different places in the world and how these characteristics change over time.  In addition, we also want students to practice the necessary reading skills that will help them become life-long learners. These skills directly relate to Reading/Language Arts Sunshine State Standards and to those standards tested on the FCAT. We are providing opportunities for students to:

LA.6.1.7.2 Analyze the author’s purpose (e.g., to persuade, inform, entertain, or explain) and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning. LA.6.1.7.3 Determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level text through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details. LA.6.1.7.6 Analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections. LA.6.1.7.7 Compare and contrast elements in multiple texts.