My two passports! I have dual citizenship through my mother, who was born and raised in the United Kingdom.
One full week down, one more full week left in the semester, before finals! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 2: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Soundtrack: "Immigrant" by Nitin Sawhney. Selected for today for obvious reasons connected to our current unit. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/10/20:
News Brief – Ean
Finish Last Class
Final Project
Work Time
News Brief: Ean had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: TheGuardian.com - Iran plane crash: expert raises serious concerns over integrity of site of wreckage – as it happened. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Yash was assigned to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finish Last Class: Due to watching President Trump's speech last class, we needed to finish up both the Braceros documentary and the Stereotypes and Statistics activity. We looked into some common stereotypes about Latinx immigrants and the actual facts. I wanted to make sure we finished this today in class.
This was the link I shared with students to help:
Here is the worksheet that students filled out:
We then talked about this information as a class and the importance of knowing facts.
Final Project: Next, I introduced what the final project will look like for this semester (a group presentation due on finals day, or before, if the group wants to get it done with):
In class, I gave students time to consider which immigrant group might be most interesting to learn about. Here are the options:
As I said in class, this is an opportunity to improve or maintain your grade in the class. If you do not show up or do not do the final presentation, of course, I reserve the right to lower your grade in the class at semester.
Today, groups were formed and immigrant groups were selected. Here is the list of groups:
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to work time in researching the immigrant group the team selected, and beginning to create the presentations. This is largely what we will work on all next week in preparation for finals (this project is the final for this semester). Thanks for your effort this week!
Today, groups were formed and immigrant groups were selected. Here is the list of groups:
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to work time in researching the immigrant group the team selected, and beginning to create the presentations. This is largely what we will work on all next week in preparation for finals (this project is the final for this semester). Thanks for your effort this week!
