The PS 48 South Bronx Intensive English Sessions After School Program

• Your child will receive a snack each session during the program.
• The PS 48 South Bronx Intensive English Sessions take place from 2:20 P.M. until 4:20 P.M. on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Learn more about the program. Visit the PS 48 South Bronx Intensive English Sessions media page.

Through this program your child will:

• Investigate fun scientific topics;
• Develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; and
• Prepare for the NYSESLAT exam in May 2016.

Units of Study

1. Introduction to burial grounds and gravestones: the what and why, burial traditions in city and around the world;
2. Physical survey of headstones in the family burial ground at Drake Park: condition reports and documenting inscriptions;
3. Interpreting the data: timeline and genealogy of burials tied into local, city, and national history;
4. Commemorating the enslaved: creating gravestones for the unmarked graves, what they might look like and say; and,
5. Integration of the students work into public interpretation at park.

Calendar

Scroll to view all program dates. Last Two Days! May 26, 2016, and June 1, 2016.

Program Media

Program Overview

The PS 48 Title III After School Program for SY2015-2016 focuses on accelerating the English language acquisition for English Language Learners (ELLs) and at risk immigrant students who may have a home language of English as well. The program centers on developing content knowledge aligned to the New York City Dept. of Education (NYCDOE) social studies and science scope and sequence. This will provide the academic vocabulary and literacy skills to be successful for grade level demands, whether tasks or formative assessments in literacy, in particular for the Spring 2016 NYSESLAT assessment.

In concert with structured English language development, students will engage in authentic, hands on archaeological research in collaboration with Jessica S. MacLean, PhD, RPA Archaeologist, resident archaeologist for the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground (HPSBG) Project housed at PS 48. Students will conduct an inventory of the gravestones in Drake Park. This will include geologic investigations (science), document each gravestone through photographs (literacy, technology and art), mapping their locations (literacy, mathematics, geography, technology), and transcribe what it located on the inscriptions (literacy, art). The project flow will be as follows:

1. Introduction to burial grounds and gravestones: the what and why, burial traditions in city and around the world;
2. Physical survey of headstones in the family burial ground at Drake Park: condition reports and documenting inscriptions;
3. Interpreting the data: timeline and genealogy of burials tied into local, city, and national history;
4. Commemorating the enslaved: creating gravestones for the unmarked graves, what they might look like and say; and,
5. Integration of the students work into public interpretation at park.

Program Resources

Information for 2016 PS 48 South Bronx Intensive English Sessions Program Teachers

Common Core Learning Standards Alignment

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