Hello, family readers,
Our authorship has doubled in the past few days. Dan's posted and Cille has also indicated her interest in posting as well. Fabulous. Wouldn't it be great if it caught on? What a nice way to stay in touch.
Today I start my big project with the 10th graders. It's really my first test as a faculty member at this new school. I have been fairly insistent about a re-design of their class trips program at the 10th grade level and was encouraged by a supportive team of colleagues to forge ahead. Today starts the first ever Out-of-Door Academy class trip/biography project. I had a visiting artist in my classes yesterday talking to kids about the role of story-telling through history. He ended by sharing a clip of a particularly poignant anecdote about an interview he did with a man who fled Pinochet in Chile to seek asylum in Vienna.
Today my students will be matched with an elderly person in a local, public nursing home. They will record two interviews over the next two days then work with artists (writers, story-tellers, and visual artists) to render one of the elder's stories into a creative medium. They had the choice of creating a podcast, painting a lifemap or story-board, creating a short documentary, using photography and captions, or creating a live performance/interpretation. It's a twist on the project that I am experimenting with. It incorporates all the basics of the biography projects I've done in the past with a great program from Rowland Hall in SLC called Artstart.
I'll let you know how it goes. Maybe I can even figure out how to post one of the projects on this blog.
Hope you are all well.
Camela
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Hi this is Becky, I just posted a comment and it didn't go through so now I am trying again. I re-created a google account so maybe it will work this time. Does this constitute a "posting"?
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Becky says: Hunh! so that worked. OK, we loved having you all here. we are still coming down off the high. So glad everyone got home safely. Bob starts teaching on Monday -- his competition is a class on Atheism which is proving a major draw, but he's got respectable enrollment. declan took Lulu for a walk yesterday, holding the leash and talking to the dog very confidently (except initially when she leapt about with excitement). I came along but he essentially did all the leash work.
ReplyDeleteDoes everyone know how to pronounce "Rothary"? the T is silent, the O is long as in "rowboat", the accent on the first syllable. Now you can speak irish.
declan's poem:
ReplyDeleteK is for Dr. King
who worked with all his wise.
He knew that using peaceful ways
was better than a fight.
1/15/09