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Getting Chromebooks in the classroom can be an issue most days. Not every student in every classroom across our grades 6-12 school will have access to technology whenever they want, which can be a let down- especially for special education students in a self-contained setting that may rely on a different type of teaching and learning from the student sitting next to them. My self-contained 11th grade ELA class this year has 8 students, and since we aren't in a traditional classroom setting, it is highly unlikely that we'll have access to computers whenever we want them- smaller class sizes can sometimes be looked at as the low man on the totem pole. This year, we are focusing on the framework of oppression, and I don't want them to feel like they are undeserving of something that so many children in so many other schools across the city, state, and country, have free and willing access to every single day. We will be reading novels such as Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me," and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple." My self-contained students are reading at a significantly lower reading level than most other 11th graders, and benefit greatly from audiobooks and digital read-alouds, which can be accessed via a Chromebook. They will also be using these Chromebooks for research projects on oppression, as well as for writing argumentative and literary analysis essays that will help prepare them for passing the NYS Regents Exam in ELA at the end of the year. I want my students to feel like although their class size is small and their learning styles different, they are still getting all of the tools that other students are getting, and I feel like having our own set of Chromebooks is a really good start.

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Getting Chromebooks in the classroom can be an issue most days. Not every student in every classroom across our grades 6-12 school will have access to technology whenever they want, which can be a let down- especially for special education students in a self-contained setting that may rely on a different type of teaching and learning from the student sitting next to them. My self-contained 11th grade ELA class this year has 8 students, and since we aren't in a traditional classroom setting, it is highly unlikely that we'll have access to computers whenever we want them- smaller class sizes can sometimes be looked at as the low man on the totem pole. This year, we are focusing on the framework of oppression, and I don't want them to feel like they are undeserving of something that so many children in so many other schools across the city, state, and country, have free and willing access to every single day. We will be reading novels such as Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me," and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple." My self-contained students are reading at a significantly lower reading level than most other 11th graders, and benefit greatly from audiobooks and digital read-alouds, which can be accessed via a Chromebook. They will also be using these Chromebooks for research projects on oppression, as well as for writing argumentative and literary analysis essays that will help prepare them for passing the NYS Regents Exam in ELA at the end of the year. I want my students to feel like although their class size is small and their learning styles different, they are still getting all of the tools that other students are getting, and I feel like having our own set of Chromebooks is a really good start.

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