Participants were members from one of my Grade Eight Language Arts classes, consisting
of twenty- eight students, twelve females and sixteen males, age 12 to 13 years, and of
average to above average ability. The profile is that of what I consider to be a 'typical' Junior
High class. This project stemmed from a Language Arts Unit, The Unusual and the
Unexplained, which I built around the novel, Julie, by Cora Taylor which deals with a young
girl's coming to terms with her psychic powers. Upon completion of the novel, students, in a
collaborative learning situation, were to research a topic of choice based on said unit.