Unacceptable educational conditions prompted students to rise and act in 1960s Los Angeles. What are some of the issues affecting students today? At your school? Are students doing anything about it? What issues would or do move you to step up and take action? What concrete steps would you or have you taken on an issue that is important to you?

Prewriting: this stage of the writing process involve gathering and selecting ideas; teachers can students in several ways: creating lists, researching, brainstorming,reading to discover more about the author's style, talking, collecting memorabilia or clips from other texts, and free-writingdrafting: in this stage, students begin writing, connecting, and developing ideasrevising: this is the stage of writing that involves rewriting or "re-seeing; " emphasis is place on examining sentence structure, word choice, voice, and organization of the pieceediting: this stage involves checking for style and conventions--spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuationpublishing: the "going public" stage of writingevaluating: in this stage, the writer looks back at his/her work and self-evaluates, and the audience evaluates the effectiveness of the writingwriting activities : personal writing, workplace writing, subject writing, creative writing, persuasive writing, and scholarly writingpeer review: acting a referee; evaluating a colleague's work professionally

"we must plan a picnic for the holiday," said mrs. bailey, while the children were getting dressed.adverb clause: while the children were getting dressed.