Help me give my students individual notebooks to use as illustration journals for our upcoming poetry unit.
$553 goal
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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.
I’m privileged to work with juniors, teaching the International Baccalaureate (IB) Language and Literature course. All 11th- and 12th grade students on our campus are enrolled in the IB Diploma Programme, which challenges students to build college-level skills across subject areas.
One hundred percent of our 2,000+ enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price meals; we serve a majority Hispanic population.
Many students are poised to be first-generation college attendees and I want them to leave high school as confident readers, writers, and speakers and thoughtful listeners.
My Project
These notebooks are blank canvases for creative minds as we prepare to explore the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. Effective journaling involves more than words; pictures bring thoughts to life and make learning visible. Image-based journaling supports all students -- especially visual and kinesthetic learners -- and allows students to step away from computer screens and demonstrate their learning by hand.
Poetry and image-based journaling are natural companions.
A single line can spark an imaginative map, a unique representation of an object or animal, and be the jumping-off point for deeper thinking about language. By the end of the unit, students will have created a book of learning and a valuable resource for developing in-depth writing. Students will also be able to practice speaking skills if distance learning continues; they can narrate a video tour of their journals to share their thinking with me.
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