This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. I try to give them every possible type of leverage they can get. They are a diverse group of children with many abilities, yet they don't always have the materials they need to be successful.
With an intense will to succeed, they need to be challenged.
It is important to provide my students with materials that any other student, in an other school district, would have access to.
My Project
I'd like to begin the school year with a theme that can be acknowledged by all of my students. That theme is Survival and Courage.I chose this theme, because I feel that all of my students can relate to and draw from the characters and their endeavors in the texts. Sixth grade is a time when children begin to mature into young adults and begin to develop courage and survival skills within themselves and their communities. Through reading and completing the various hands-on activities, we dive into the texts head first and come up for air with skills to show no matter what is thrown at us, we can survive.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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