AOWs 8 & 9 featured young people taking action for causes they cared about. (Ask your 5th grader which Time Kid of the Year or Honoree stood out to them most & why.) We are now in the process of identifying causes/issues we care about, what we can do about them now as 10 & 11 year olds, and what moonshot thinking solutions might address them. (AOWs are archived here.)
These slides represent our ideas in-progress:
This Padlet is where both classes shared the causes they care about with each other:
Last Friday's Black Lives Matter at School work focused on the guiding principles Queer Affirming and Transgender Affirming. We used the book Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council & Carolyn Choi as the foundation of our discussion, which focuses on the themes of allyship, diversity, intersectionality, and community. Then we made our own identity maps of all the different parts of ourselves that intersect: education, religion, age, citizenship, language, heritage, ability, skin color, gender, etc. This work led to so many thoughtful, respectful questions & discussions.
Lastly, we are writing poetry in ELA. Check out some of the mentor poems we've been studying. These 5th graders love expressing themselves through poetry!
Students are also strongly encouraged to write a poem to submit to the Washington Post's Kidpost "Poetry of the Pandemic" contest. (poems are submitted to me by March 5 and I will submit them to the contest. If you have read this far, we so appreciate you! ~Julie
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