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After teaching The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini we moved on to teaching Human Rights. We have spent three weeks learning about Human Right's issues around the world. The whole idea behind this part of the unit was to become aware of issues that we didn't know about before or that we wanted to learn more about. For the final form of presenting students had a choice of either doing spoken word, a video or doing a photo story. The students loved that it was a project they owned and they were able to make the decisions about the message they wanted to send. I also decided to make my own video raising awareness about an issue that has to do with the rights of students. After all I am an educator and what I most want is for students to be aware of the discrepancies in education that are not always addressed by the people in power. For my blog post this week I decided to share my video with you guys and I have also shared it on youtube. The link to my video is the one above if you want to see it for yourself.
Lucy,
ReplyDeleteso excited to read this! My students are doing a very similar projects - the only difference is that I asked them to make projects that they can attempt to share with the entire school. I'm happy to see that we share some of the same values, and more importantly, that these projects have given you an opportunity to make a greater connection with your students. Can't wait to watch your video! (it's up next!)
Emmanuel Thurs and Friday we spent both periods working on sharing all the learning we compiled from the past three days of presentations into posters that we are going to share outside of the classroom. Students were so excited to be working on posters it was unbelievable. They owned every minute of it, Susan and I just sat back at the desk and took pictures of how focused they were. It was so important to them to let everyone else know about everything they had learned about. By the time class ended we had a classroom that looked like a tornado had hit but we also had about twenty posters that are AMAZING!!! They are surely into art and into making their voice be heard:) I hope yours goes as well as mine did, good luck!!!
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