Help me give my students a hands-on project that will allow them to research the lives of Japanese Americans, Native Americans, and the Jewish community during WWII.
$601 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
The students I teach come from varied backgrounds in and around Los Angeles. I teach in East L.A. in a Media and STEAM Magnet School.
My classroom is full of students with bright minds and futures.
I enjoy sharing different forms of literature and incorporating music, media, and STEAM concepts in my lessons so that students can better grasp the author's purpose and tone.
What makes my students special is the fact that they have been together as a group for the past three years in the Magnet school. I feel that this has helped them learn and grow together to be better citizens and better prepared for high school.
My Project
WWII is a difficult topic to cover, and my wish is to inform my students about what led to the war and how it affected millions of people. I really want them to understand the difficulties of the everyday person with a special focus on the Jewish population, African Americans, Native Americans (Code Talkers), Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans. Since their research will focus on these groups, they will be using books that give first-person accounts about this horrific event and what they endured.
Doing this project in my class will really emphasize the struggles of these particular groups and teach them that a war like this can never happen again.
These novels and scrapbook materials will serve as an example of what people around the world endured and will be written in the first-person point of view. I want them to be as creative as possible and show, through visual arts and their writing, what they learned about the citizens that lived through WWII as well as the ones that died.
In a district where we struggle to get the paper to print on, art supplies are scarce and expensive. These supplies would help my students tremendously and do them a world of good by showing them the joy of visual arts projects.
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