Completed Immigrant Oral History Projects!
We completed our oral history projects! Read this earlier post to learn more about the process. Click on the image below to see the different completed projects.
Student Work
Social Justice Alphabet
I’m very excited about the public art project we will be installing over the next couple of weeks. As we wrote in the intro to the project site: Philly public school students know firsthand about struggles for social justice. Recent budget cuts have forced us all to reflect upon the importance of public schools and the role of […]Read Post ›
What Kids Can Do Writes About Modern Day de Tocquevilles
I am thankful to Barbara Cervone of What Kids Can Do for writing this wonderful article about our Modern Day de Tocqueville projects. I was particularly touched by the poignant and insightful student quotes.
The Nobodies –> Somebodies
This past week my World History students studied modern day Haiti. The students made timelines, analyzed political cartoons, read an article by Jean Paul Aristide, read an excerpt from Paul Farmer about charity, development, and social justice, and watched the wonderful film The Agronomist made by Jonathan Demme about Haitian Jean Dominique. (A couple of […]Read Post ›
Revolution Guidebook Digital Stories
Teaching is humbling. One of the best projects submitted by a student this past week used an idea that I initially discouraged. Thankfully I asked August to prove me wrong instead of preventing him from pursuing his alternate approach to the digital story project. Overall the structure of this project seemed to allow students to […]Read Post ›
Mr J Block 