Inspiration: 8th Grade Social Justice Projects
Ugh! After getting the creeping crud the last few days of winter vacation, I missed the entire first week back to school and the review of what the students had worked on over the vacation. While I was out, eighth grade teachers SMR and RB assigned a deadline for the students to have written their bios for the page (1/3), and a deadline for them to have contacted, made an appointment with, and visited at least one organization that deals with their topic (1/31). Tech teacher CJ worked with the team of webmasters to create the front page of their website, including both content and design, due (1/20). Though each member of the team has a specific role in the creation of the page, the roles all overlap. Students meet in both role teams and topic teams, they are sharing everything they learn with each other. As are the teachers. We are all helping students copy edit, upload documents to the cloud, structure their biographical paragraphs, and create content for their front pages. And what we don’t know, students are showing us. And I love that, because not only is that the collaborative teaching model our school strives for, it really allows me to be an “embedded” librarian in the truest sense of the word. Today, the teachers and I checked in with groups and made sure they were on target to make their deadlines. We got updates from groups that had already set up interviews and tours. The Child Soldiers group will be attending a U.N. panel tomorrow on their topic, while the group dealing with Women and Girls’ Issues are working on editing their video interview with author Patricia McCormick about her book Sold. Also, SMR collected a number of New York Times videos to show the students, not only to demonstrate to them the type of content they could link to their websites, but to inspire them by showing them the kind of great social justice work that is going on all over the world. Take a look! They’re pretty cool.
Educational Equity: Valentino Achek Deng, Building Schools in Sudan
Environment and Community: SOIL Project in Haiti –
Women and Girls Issues: Sexual Slavery:
War and Violence and Peace: Rabbis for Peace
Inspired in the library,
Jennifer Hubert Swan, Middle School Librarian
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