Bobby's Post 1 revised
Here is the revised version of the template of my classroom activity. Any suggestions will be helpful, i will give each due consideration. Thank You.
Title: The Diverse Cultures of the World
Objectives: I want my students to have some pride in their nationality and culture. I want them to learn about their cultures past and present. Once the students get a feel for their culture history, they can begin to understand and learn about other cultures, and still keep their identity and pride of their own. I want my students to change their attitudes towards other cultures, especially stereotyping minorities.
Prerequisite: I guess my students would need to have access to their history, nationality and cultural customs. They would obviously need some computer/typing skills for the writing part of the assignment.
Materials needed: Computer, Internet access, Power point, Word
Set up/Context:
- 10-grade world history class, or a geography class
- 2-3 weeks,
- One week for research, one for writing the assignment, one for presentation of assignments.
- The presentation will be in the classroom and research and prior writing at home.
Process/Instructions: I will have a step by step plan when i use this activity for the first time. I need to get to know my students and their abilities before i place a project like this upon them. I will have a timeline, example of the project, as well as the power point for this project. Students will be able to borrow the same template as me or make their own from scratch.
Outcomes: The student will have produced at the end of the project a 4-6-page essay on their particular nationality, a power point for a presentation, and a little knowledge of the other cultures in the world.
Evaluation: I am going to be taking notes throughout each student’s presentation, and I will copy or take the highlighted points from the student’s assignments and make a comprehensive test on what they learned about the cultures. I will have some multiple-choice questions and a short essay.
Follow Up: The follow up for this assignment will be another 1-2 week assignment that has to deal with a partner or other classmate’s nationality. I want to get the students view of other cultures and hopefully get them to learn something new about their classmate.
Resources: I will hopefully find a website for each of the different cultures. The school i teach at will probably have a link to a database where i can find this information. Also, the school or local libraries will have sufficient books for the students to use. I think my reference page will be in APA or MLA whatever is the majority choice in the school I teach in.
posted by bobby @ 3/15/2006 12:17:00 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
Hello, Bobby. Just a general comment. I've noticed throughout everybody's blog a reliance on essays as a form of assessment. That's great but I want to prepare you for the essay-writing ability of Lee County tenth graders. The concept of a coherent paragraph is most foreign to students. Now, the five-paragraph essay, especially if it is expository or persuasive, is not such a challenge. You, however, are talking about thesis writing with footnotes and a bibliography. Please know that such writing has been a bear trap in my teaching career. You will have to be prepared to do a full battery of preparation for the writing of such documents. As a ninth grade language arts teacher, it is close to April and I am still building up their skills about writing thesis paragraphs with spliced in quotes. Just a warning. If you want any more thoughts on this topic, let me know.
Ms. I,
Thank you for the helpful advice, i have never really thought much of high schoolers writing essays as a difficulty. i have heard kids complaining about them, but never heard of too dificult. i went to a private school for my freshman and sophomre year, so i have a little advatage with the essay part, i have been doing them for a while. I have not consider a particular style for my essays, but the five paragraph essay is usually the best choice to go with. i know that writing is hard for some kids and it takes a lot for them to want to do it, but i have seen that throughout college, that is all we do. i just want my students to get in a little more practice in on the essay stuff. i am not an english teacher so i will not be too hard on ther grammer and etc, i am going to grade them on the content and accuratization. i always hated the teachers who gave me a b or a c just because they didnt like the way i set my essay up. if the content is good and it is accurate, i will not take points off. well thank you for the comments and any other helpful advice will be greatly appreciated.
-bobby
jbconely,
Thank you for your suggestions, i will definitly give them attention when i repost my classroom activity this following week. i know three weeks is a little long followed by a two week assignment, but i am one of those firm believers in dont judge it till i actually do it myself. once i become a teacher and have a class of my own, i will be able to judge how much time is allowed for a project. But for this assignments purposes i will say three weeks. With the bad grammer, i know i am supposed to be working on that, i have a tendacy to think outloud and then write it down. thank you for noticing that though. I will try to give you what my every day plans are, but frankly i have not thought of that yet. i have not seen the curriculum i will be using, and we all heard of the stories of teachers not following the curriculum assigned to them. But if i am teaching them a world history or geography course i will be probably going around the different cultures. i already have some other projects that i will be running my class on for example, i plan on breaking up the class and forming it into a roman sentate and let them have debates on certain issues. i want them to be able to put themselves in the roman times. it is just an idea and i am still modeling myself to be a good teacher, but experience comes with time. thank you for you helpful comments, i will definitly put them to use.
-bobby
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