Stories of Resilience 2020

 Stories of Resilience 

ELD/ELA 2 students interviewed  familiy members, Sequoia staff members,  Sequoia Union High School district staff members, and staff members from the Boys and Girls Club about their lives and how they have overcome obstacles.  If you would like to read the biographies they wrote about these individuals, please click on the photos or names below. 

Students prepared for this project by reading biographies about multiple historical figures who have encountered and overcome obstacles. 

Many thanks to all l the people who took their time to be interviewed and also to our collaborators on this project:  Araceli Alcibar Gayosso, Dreamer Specialist at the Boys and Girls Club, Carol Lopez, instructional associate, Linda Solon, volunteer and Dyan DeJager, Redwood City Teen librarian.  We also thank the DC Connections Volunteers from the Sidwell School who have supported students in the development of their oral language development. 

If you would like to know more about this project or about project-based learning in ELD classes, please contact Stacy Wenzel at Sequoia High School. swenzel@seq.org. 

A subset of the students presented on Feb. 4th, 2021 at a webinar with the Redwood City Public Library. Here are the slides from the event. Here is a translation of some of the biographies completed by one of the librarians.  We had a great turn out of students and guests. 

Please note that students have obtained the photographs below from a variety of sources. Other years,  learning how to take portraits has been part of this project. But this year, due to the pandemic, it has not.  So in some cases, students took the photos during their zoom interviews.  And in other cases, the person they interviewed shared a photograph.