Students all have a notable person to research and become an expert on. This H.B. Lee tradition continues on for all of our 7th grade Language Arts students. All students will work on their reading, writing, research, and speaking skills for this two-month long project. Currently, students are working feverishly to finish reading their biography and internet database resources and take notes with cited sources. Notes are due this week.
Students are also working in our library to research worthy and identifiable quotations for their notable. Students will choose at least three quotations to list in their note-taking spiral, and then they will select one to memorize and recite to the class on Friday, April 27th. Students will also analyze a quote from their notable and explain why it is relevant to their notable. Today in class we discussed what kinds of quotes we should be looking for: memorable, inspirational, motivational, and representative of their notable's achievement, personality, or philosophy. Next week we start making our own timelines using our research.
I am extremely proud of how hard students are working and how excited they are in their learning about their notable as students are constantly sharing facts and pictures with their classmates and myself. One student had to read to me out loud a sad story about former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass and how he didn't get to say goodbye to his mom before she died. Another student learned that John Adams, our second U.S. president, wanted to drop out of school because he didn't like his teacher and become a farmer, but his dad didn't let him. Another learned that Rosa Parks's father left her family so she had to be raised by her grandparents who encouraged her to go to school and church and treat people equally. Great stuff! And so the learning continues.....
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