Stories of Resilience 

Stories of Resilience 

ELD/ELA 2 students interviewed community members, Sequoia staff members, friends and family who have developed resilience. They prepared for this project by reading about multiple historical figures who have encountered and overcome obstacles. After completing the interviews, students wrote a short biography about the person they interviewed, described their obstacles and the resources they leveraged in order to overcome these obstacles, and, in most cases,  recorded advice the interviewee's advice for young people. Lastly, the students wrote a short reflection about the project. 

 They have displayed their work in the form of google slide presentations with hyperlinks to their texts. In the process of making the google slide presentations, they learned to take portraits, search for fair use images, crop and resize photographs, create hyperlinks, force present mode in google slides, and change sharing settings in google slide presentations. 

To view the work, please click on slide one and select full screen mode. Either the photos or the titles on the photos of slide two contain hyperlinks to the four sections of the project. 

Students used sentence frames to help craft their work. You may recognize some similar patterns among student work. Some students did not take the portrait they used, but most took the portrait themselves or took the portrait with a partner (sharing phones). In some cases, two different students wrote about the same person. I wrote the model about Dy Nguyen.