Auto Club, UCLA and LAUSD Show off Successful Geography Curriculum in Challenged South Los Angeles High School

--Automobile Club of Southern California:

WHO:    The Automobile Club of Southern California, the UCLA
        History-Geography Project, L.A. City Councilmember Jan Perry,
        and faculty and students of Fremont High School

WHAT:   Presentation of final projects by the 10th-grade students of
        teacher Janet Tran, who have been using Auto Club maps,
        photographs and archival materials in an innovative curriculum
        developed in conjunction with the Auto Club and the UCLA
        History-Geography Project.

WHEN:   Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. 

WHERE:  Fremont High School, 7676 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles. 
        Please check in at the Principal's Office North.

WHY:    Fremont High School is in a part of Los Angeles where low
        expectations abound. Against that background, a new learning
        environment is flowering. Using the resources of the Auto Club
        archives and the UCLA History-Geography Project, Fremont's
        Social Studies students have become excited about the study of
        Los Angeles and its history after learning with a new series
        of lessons called "Then and Now - Life Before and After the
        Industrial Revolution."

Assignment Editors note: Reporters will see how students used 
        historical images to enhance their knowledge of history and 
        geography. Teachers and students are available for interviews 
        in addition to the Auto Club's historian and archivist and 
        officials of the UCLA Geography Project.