Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
A. D. JOHNSTON High School students Blayne Pellinen, Rachel Emery, Ciara Novascone and Kimberly Wendinger hold up the book "Carter" that they authored and illustrated. The four students are members of peer-to-peer class. "Carter" portrays a day in the life of a fictional eighth grader with autism.
BESSEMER - For a class project, four A.D. Johnston High School class members wrote a book describing a day in the life of the title character Carter, an eighth-grade student who has Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The students are in a peer-to-peer class.
As part of the class, special education teacher Jamie Stiffarm said Rachel Emery, Ciara Novascone, Kimberly Wendinger and Blayne Pellinen spent time as peers for students with learning disabilities and helped them with their classwork.
The four authors worked together to create the story of Carter to raise awareness and understanding of the challen...
