But in their own aspirations, the school's final classes may be writing Morland's epitaph.

"The students then chose eight points where the songs should come, which made it easy to have each class write two of them."

Maybe a class could write something in Polish and put it on a Web site.

Here are some of the letters to the editor that Ms. Solomon's class wrote in response to the article.

Bayerly glanced over at the status board, where a young third class was writing backwards on the transparent plastic.

"About half the class wrote with the pen because they weren't completely used to typing," he said.

Last week, the class wrote the dedication for the front of the book.

The next step is interactive writing where the class or small group writes together.

"I had teachers have their class, little kids, write me letters, you know," he said.

The senior citizens love it, and every class writes a thank-you note.