Project Overview: This assignment asks students to read a book of their choice that serves as a window into the perspective of someone different from them. As they read, they track “window moments” that allow them to see from a new perspective AND “mirror moments” that allow them to see themselves reflected back. After they read, they choose window and mirror moments to write up and create a visual component that incorporates the concept of windows and mirrors.
Overview: Each student collects small objects from home that serve to introduce themselves to the class. There a a variety of categories (see below), and each student finds one object for each category. Each student assembles the objects into a paper bag, which the student then brings into class.
Lesson Overview: Through this beginning-of-the-year assignment, each student writes a resume to introduce themselves to their teacher. The resume includes information about the student's education, language(s) at home, math interest, and references (who already knows this student well at BHS?).
Project Overview: Each student first reflects upon their own social identities. They then choose a social identity group of which they are not a member that they would like to understand more fully through both reading and statistical analysis. They read an article and gather values of a quantitative variable related to the chosen social identity group for each state. Students ultimately construct two histograms to display the distribution of the variable across two different groupings of states.
Student Reflections:
Overview: Each student creates a visual representation in response to the question: "In what ways are ordinary objects imbued with a sense of preciousness through personal experience, cultural significance, and emotional attachment?"
Student Reflection:
In response to her piece above, the student artist wrote: "The smell of lemons via lemonade and lemon meringue pies always reminded me of the hot summer when I turned 7, the first summer I experienced in America. I wanted to capture the nostalgia of struggling to make new American friends, and the "American Childhood" that I experienced in a way, but never fully lived (hence a better sweet sepia hue)." Assignment Overview: Students read various essays from the book American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures edited by America Ferrara. Using the book's essays as models, students then write their own narrative essay that reflects on their own experience being between cultures (American or living in America).
Project Overview: Using this assignment description, each student creates a family garden, based upon interviews and interactions with family members. Students are encouraged to broaden their definition of family (see below).
Student Reflections:
“I really enjoyed this interview with my grandma. I was supposed to talk with her for about 20 minutes, but it turned into an hour long conversation. I learned so much about her childhood and family.” “When I received this assignment I thought it was going to be one of those long and tedious projects. Instead it turned out to be a wonderful experience being able to interview my family members on their lives and learn more about my family history.” “I had a better understanding of the lifestyles my relatives lived in Russia as well as the differences between American and Russian cultures.” Project Overview: Each student writes a story about themself or their life in which 2 quantities vary in relationship to one another. Students then draw a matching graph that accurately reflects the story’s changes.
Lesson Overview: These slides contain short profiles of young and diverse Biologists doing biological research involving genetics. A teacher could integrate these slides into a broader lesson regarding genetics, current research, etc.
Activity Overview: Introduce your family to the class -- in Japanese!
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