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Do you have any interesting records or documents for your family?

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Do you have any interesting records or documents for your family?

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We read about half of this long New York Times article in class. In reading, we learned how many immigrant children must work full time in addition to going to school, or do not go to school and work instead. This violates many labor laws, and it is difficult for the governemnt to manage this or crack down on offending companies. We also learned that child labor is used at making MANY of the US-made items we buy sucy as Cheerios, Cheetos, granola bars, J. Crew clothing, and more.

Looking forward to next week, after we complete the movie we began watching on Friday, we will discuss what we might do to be better consumers and child advocates.

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Students have each selected a book to read that has an immigrant or refugee theme. The books need to be completed by May 5, and today kids broke down how many pages they had to read each night in order to meet their deadline. Some students picked graphic novels or shorter books and plan to read more than one choice, while others are tackling longer and/or more difficult books.

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Jenn’s Great Great Grandfather, Solomon Sweet

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Jenn’s Great Great Grandfather, Solomon Sweet

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Exit Card: Alone and Exploited, What  Were Your Take Aways?

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Exit Card: Alone and Exploited, What  Were Your Take Aways?

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We discussed the end of the book in a speed-dating format, but speed-chatted rather than dated. There were six desks set up with two chairs each, and each had a propt taped to the desk. Students moved through the different prompts in different orders in order to have different ideas to talk about and different people to talk with. Although we could not figure out the math to have it work out so that everyone talked with a different person at each station, there was a variety of combinations which made talking about the book more interesting. It was also more active than sitting and having a big group discussion in which people have to do a ton of listening and then waiting to share their own ideas.

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Students then looked back through the book to find quotes for different motifs (recurring ideas) that came up in the book. These were recorded on posters so that we have a collection of quotes at the end of the class.

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Today we workedn on how to break down a quote and analyze it thoroughly as a review of writing analytical paragraphs. Students did one in a group as a combined effort (1/2 the class did one quote, the other 1/2 did a different quote). Then students each did their own. Students reported either that this was review and they knew how to do this already (yay!) or that it was good practice and is helping to cement the skill (another yay).

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It was a pleasure to have a former student return to discuss her new book with us on Tuesday night. All of the students who came told me to tell Jessica how much they appreciated the talk. I appreciate all who showed up and got to hear about the issues we are studying in class from the author.

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We watched the first 25 minutes of this documentary and will finish on Monday.

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Sample Answers from Today's Exit Card about Food Chains

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Sample Answers from Today's Exit Card about Food Chains

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What are two takeaways from the movie so far? |

Because the number of supermarkets has shrunk so dramatically, they basically have a monopoly over the supply chain and farmers have to meet their demand.

Farm workers are paid almost nothing and the people who run the businesses get away with it because they have so much power and many workers are undocumented.

That grocery stores are the ones who control prices, and therefore what farmworkers get paid.

Farmworkers work long hours for very little money.

Walmart makes more than Apple, like what? And also that they control the market.

Adding a singular penny per pound of tomatoes workers pick doubles their wages???

Farm workers are extremely under paid

Supermarkets practically have a monopoly over fresh produce.

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Do you feel ready for the quiz? If not, what will you do to study?
(Email me questions over the weekend if you have them.)

- I am a 5/10 for readiness and will make a quizlet to study

- I am feeling 50/50 about the quiz. I am pretty confident, but I am still unsure about something, but then again they might not even be apart of the quiz so… 🤷

- I feel pretty ready for the quiz. I might look over old material in my binder over the weekend but I do think that I will be just fine.

-I feel okay. I do not think I can get every question right, but I will study more and try my best.

- Not quite, I i  will do the study guide.

- In the middle, I willi will study with my mom.

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One thing I am doing every day of this course is having students fill out an Exit Card for each class. The goal is to monitor their focus (they rate their focus for the class from 1-4 and say why). The other reason is to get a sense of their takeaways and comprehension from class. This is also a way that they can let me know how they are experiencing the materials and anything else. It is a way that I can write to a student every day and if there's something I am noticing, can let them know. While I have done occassional exit cards in the past, this is the first time I have done them daily and I appreciate their feedback.