As a final project, students will embrace their own individual language identity by creating a physical representation of their identity through a vision board. With this project, students will gain an appreciation for their individualiy in their English-learning journey. With this pride, students will hopefully be able to go into the world and face Linguistic Discrimination with strength and inner acceptance of who they are and how they can incorperate that into English. Hopefully, this strength and appreciation of individualism in English language learning will also encourage them to stand up against Linguistic Discrimination if they experience it or witness it.
Materials needed: access to the internet/magazines, paper and writing utensils, glue, poster boards
Have students write down/brainstorm important aspects of their identity, such as their country of origin, their first language, their religion, their interests, people they care about in their lives, topics they are passionate about, etc.
With this list, have students find pictures either on the internet or in magazines that correlate to the aspects listed above. Students will cut print out and cut out the images.
Using a poster board, have the students arrange the photos on the boards and glue them down. They can do this in any fashion that they want. Encourage them to be creative with their posters!
After the posters are finished, the students will have a gallery walk of all the created vision boards. The teacher can do this in two ways: either have each student present individually what their poster represents in terms of their identity in front of the class, or have the students write a short reflection about their poster, post it next to the poster, and allow students to do a physical gallery walk of the posters, reading all the posters around the room.