Reading, ‘riting and recipes

On a recent Friday afternoon the students in Sandra Palazolla’s cooking class baked pretzels and made old-fashioned root beer floats. But at Branciforte Middle School in Santa Cruz, there’s no such thing as a free snack. Before they started rolling dough, the kids had to write a short essay, and they got another writing assignment for homework. The next week, they were writing about the history of pretzels. Read more about this school’s effort to improve English scores in this article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel.