Collaboration with Dover Combined School, Empangeni, South Africa

"One Book" joins the global community!

Carole Leonard, an English teacher at East Lansing High School, will collaborate with Sonto Mthiyane, an English teacher at the Dover Combined School in Empangeni, South Africa, on the reading and discussion of Fahrenheit 451 between October 7 and November 15.

Students at both schools will read the novel and write responses to it in the form of book reviews and thematic essays. The teachers will then exchange their students' papers and the students will have an opportunity to respond to each other via the Internet. Because the Dover School is a rural school with few resources, Barnes & Noble East Lansing donated 20 copies of the novel to its library.

East Lansing teachers have been collaborating with teachers at the Dover Combined School for the past three years in a sister-school relationship involving the sharing of curriculum, resources, and most recently, teachers. The project is sponsored by LinkingSchools, a non-profit organization, and is funded by corporate donors. The teacher exchange portion of the project is generously funded by a grant from the Dart Foundation.

ELHS South Africa International Collaborative Learning Project Site

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English Classroom at the Dover, South Africa school
Children at the Dover, South Africa School
With Mr. Cele's English 9th Grade Class
Computer Lab at Dover