Help me give my students the experience of creating self-portraits and of visions of their future-selves in a targeted effort to artistically portray their resilience and persistence in a diverse world.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Dahme's classroom raised $599
This project is fully funded
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.
My Students
Our students are brilliantly resilient scholars who come from immigrant, blue-collar working households close to downtown LA. Many of them attend school year-round to catch up on reading and writing skills. These students tirelessly work toward fluency in English while continuing to persevere through the struggles of their community. The culture we are promoting at our school is college readiness through the use of AVID strategies such as physical organization, note taking, and paraphrasing. Students show up every day ready to tackle the days' objectives and build community with one another.
My Project
"There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you..." This is the opening line in the book, The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson. My students will hear this book during a read aloud, brainstorm ideas with partners about the message of this book, and begin thinking about how literature effects our greater sense of self.
My students will complete an art project depicting a self portrait of them today and of their future selves.
Students will sketch themselves using the drawing paper and graphite pencils. Discussing color and identity they will use the multicultural set of colored pencils to show themselves as they truly are. We will discuss resilience and perseverance and how their unique qualities are needed in the world for diversity. Students will see that every version of Latino, Black, Asian, or Indigenous person is unique. There is enough space for all of us in our communities.
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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