Attwood New Tech Magnet School
Attwood New Tech Magnet School
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"Where I'm From"
"Where I'm From"
Project Scenario
Project Scenario
In this project, students had the opportunity to leverage poetry and unpack their unique identities, as they explored their own lives, the lives of their families, and the lives of others in their class. Throughout the project, students established connections, as they built learning alliances and reflected on ways they could lean on each other’s experiences and strengths, to foster a safe, inclusive, and emotionally supportive community. In the end, students produced individual poems, modeled after George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From". These pieces were curated and exhibited together in their classroom, and used to showcase on virtual event site!
In this project, students had the opportunity to leverage poetry and unpack their unique identities, as they explored their own lives, the lives of their families, and the lives of others in their class. Throughout the project, students established connections, as they built learning alliances and reflected on ways they could lean on each other’s experiences and strengths, to foster a safe, inclusive, and emotionally supportive community. In the end, students produced individual poems, modeled after George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From". These pieces were curated and exhibited together in their classroom, and used to showcase on virtual event site!
The Big Idea
The Big Idea
We each have our own identities that make us unique. We can lean on each other’s strengths and experiences to create rituals and routines that cultivate a safe and welcoming learning community.
Our Driving Question
Our Driving Question
How can we honor each other’s unique identities? How can our identities and experiences inform the learning community we cultivate this year?
Group & Individual Products
Group & Individual Products
Individual:
Poem delivered in the students' choice of digital platform, individual poetry presentation.
Group:
Discussions and agreements in community rituals/circles
Read:
Students will read “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon. In a class read aloud, read “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio. In book clubs, read narratives and poetry that highlight different identities.
New Tech Desired Learning Outcomes
New Tech Desired Learning Outcomes
Agency:
Build Relationships: Works to build new relationships, and feels comfortable asking for help
Seek Feedback: Accepts feedback and uses that feedback to improve their work
Collaboration:
Group Norms: Understands and follows group created norms and processes and helps others do the same.
Oral Communication:
Language Use: Uses language and style that is mostly suited to the purpose, audience, and task
Written Communication:
Organization: Ideas and evidence are organized, possibly by applying a formulaic structure
Power Standards
Power Standards
Social Studies:
D2.Civ.9.3-5: Use deliberative processes when making decisions or reaching judgments as a group.
6- P4.2.3: Participate in projects to help or inform others.
English Language Arts:
RL 4.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text
RL 4.5: Refer to structural elements of poems
W.6.6: Produce and publish writing using technology
W.6.2.a: Write using formatting, graphics, and multimedia to support the topic.
SL.6.4: Provide necessary descriptions, details and facts to highlight main ideas or themes within a presentation.
Teaching Tolerance Standards:
IID.3-5.1: I know who I am and can talk about my family and myself
DI.3-5.9: I feel connected to other people and know how to talk, work and play with others even when we are different or when we disagree
JU.3-5.11: I try and get to know people as individuals.
ID.6-8.5: I know there are similarities and differences between my home culture and the other environments and cultures I encounter, and I can be myself in a diversity of settings.
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