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Over the past few months, Writing Project teachers from across the country have been using early versions of the film in their classrooms and developing resources to share out of this work. Meet the teachers and visit the work from our classrooms.
7dfc4dfb292e4f2f8a7115637064eff2t.mp4Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, Utah
A collection of resources curated by Chris Sloan that support having constructive conversations, and even productive disagreement, in the classroom students engage with American Creed.
JanelleBence.mp4New Tech High@ Coppell, Coppell, Texas
A set of resources and activities compiled by co-teachers Janelle Bence and Kat Saucier that support using and creating with a range of media to explore American Identity, including found symbols, words, song lyrics, and iconography.
647aba0d160e4b40a91579b79d88f5a6t.mp4To help support thoughtful submissions to the American Creed publishing site the National Project Project offers its newly developed Civically Engaged Writing Analysis Continuum (CEWAC). Begun in 2015, CEWAC grows out a development process focused on identifying and articulating how civically engaged writing differs from academic writing. Stan Pesick and Liana Gamber-Thompson use CEWAC to look at two publicly posted compositions by youth and provide example annotations.
SuzanneSutton.mp4Classen School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Building upon resources for educators developed by the This I Believe project, Suzanne Sutton has curated a set of example essays that pick up on American Creed related topics and uses them to support her students in composing their own This I Believe essays.
CaseyOlsen.mp4NWP’s College, Career, & Community Writers Program
This project is designed to support high school educators incorporating Citizen Film’s documentary release of American Creed on PBS. The project options below are listed in sequential order, though they can be selected ala carte.
MollyRobbins.mp4Cherokee Trail High School, Aurora, Colorado
Molly Robbin’s high school students in Colorado explored key questions from American Creed, including: How does your family & community history connect to the American Creed? And How is the American Creed expressed, in words, symbols, and rituals? They did this by collecting interviews as well as exploring catalyst texts from American history. Related readings and recommended clips from film are included.
CarlaTruttman.mp4Yreka High School, Yreka, California
A set of resources from an 11th grade project in Yreka High School in Northern California where students developed a 2-3 minute video inspired by the documentary American Creed. Carla Truttman provides an overview of this project, a multimedia project rubric, reproducible worksheets, and examples of student videos.
DawnReed.mp4Okemos High School, Okemos, Michigan
A set of resources from Dawn Reed’s classroom in Michigan including a sequence of lessons including anticipation writing and reflecting, a guide for argument writing, a set of critical questions and worksheet to support viewing of American Creed, suggestions for composing a response to the documentary as well as support for independent reading and student projects in response to the film.
PaulAllison.mp4This playlist, built by two teachers involved in Youth Voices (Paul Allison and Dawn Reed), encourages youth to make their way through a set of writing and annotations as a means of supporting their publishing of a final work at the Writing Our Future: American Creed publishing site. This playlist is meant to support youth in a self-paced process where they can earn a badge upon completion. The earned badge is badge 2.0 compliant and can be exported and shared by youth to show their work and accomplishments.
Even more classroom resources coming soon!
Even more classroom resources coming soon!
In the meantime, we invite you to join us at the American Creed Educators G+ Community.
In the meantime, we invite you to join us at the American Creed Educators G+ Community.
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