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Students at Pacific Drive School saw and heard last month’s train wreck more vividly than most others in the city. Located just a block from Commonwealth and Brookhurst avenues, where a Metrolink train collided with a freight train on Nov. 18, the school operates amid a background lull of rumbling trains and tooting horns.
Pamela Evenson, a fifth-grade teacher at the school, had her students record their reactions to the crash with crayons, and they compiled the letters into an illustrated log. The poster-paper anthology is on display at the Hunt Branch Library, adjacent to the school, through Jan. 5.
“Any time we have the chance to connect to real-world experience, we want to tap into that learning,” Evenson said.
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