So, have you ever been behind? Story. Of. My. Life. Netherless, I'm late-posting some of the AMAZING creations my students produced as our final assessment for our Multicultural Book Clubs. Here's how it went down:
Below you can find some (of course, not all) of my FAVS. Book TrailersNever Fall Down - Book Trailer The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - Book Trailer Torn - Book Trailer Openly Straight - Book Trailer Sold - Book Trailer Book TalksThe Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - Book Talk A The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - Book Talk B Openly Straight - Book Talk PoetryDiary/BlogCollage & ArtworkOpenly Straight - Rationale Openly Straight - Rationale
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So we finished Fences, but I wanted to transition my class into their next unit by examining poetry that (of course) relates to Fences. Let me tell you. My students did AMAZING!! We started by SIFTing "Harlem" by Langston Hughes as a class. Then, students SIFTed "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur in small groups. After we analyzed the themes of each, students then responded by either writing a new poem using words from the two poems, drawing a visual that represented the themes of the two poems, or creating a compare and contrast chart that linked to Fences. The. Results. Were. Awesome. I've put just a few of my favorites below.
This week I reviewed thesis statements, specifically how to use critical lenses in order to develop an in depth thesis statement about a text. My students just finished reading Fences by August Wilson and they are READY to write literary analysis essays. You can follow this link to view the steps they used to get them started. Sidenote: FENCES IS BECOMING A MOVIE, Y'ALL! AND, DENZEL WASHINGTON IS PLAYING TROY! THAT IS ALL. Thesis ExemplarsSuper impressed by the various thesis statements I received. Here are a few of my favorite from each class!
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For the past five weeks, my students have been digging deep into the term 'culture' as well as 'identity.' We have broken down culture into "elements" and have, also, explored the complexities of culture versus race. We have tried on our critical lenses in order to look more closely at not only the texts we read in class but also nontraditional texts we see on a daily basis. These lenses have included cultural (of course), gender, social power, and psychological. One student put it best when he stated, “As they branch out, they overlap with one another. Culture is the impetus for other factors to come out. How gender is seen, is influenced by culture. The social power is affected by culture and so is one's psychology." Lastly, we combined our discussions to write our own cultural autobiographies in order to showcase how culture has influenced our current identity and how it might impact our future identity. Just take a look at what my students had to say:
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