Student Projects: Days 1-3

Students are coming up with some great ideas about how to share what they learned through reading the book with other students. Students are working with a partner (so there are three groups) as to how they can plant their own seeds of community here at CBE. These are the ideas that have been discussed so far:

• Bulletin board/sings around the school that have quotes or interesting thoughts about the themes presented in the book.


• "Commercials" on the morning announcements that are viewed by all classes each morning.


• Bringing in speakers from other countries to share their stories. (This actually happens in the SEED class for teachers. I think it would be great for students to hear these speakers as well.)


• Starting a "Unity in Diversity" club at school. Not sure what this club would do yet...


• Having students study their own cultures and create a poem about what is important to them. These could be displayed in the building and represent many cultures.

These are a few of the ideas that the groups have been throwing around, so to speak. I think that they are really making real-world connections to the topics discussed in the book. They have two more days to prepare, and then they will share their ideas with the class and implement their idea some time before the end of the second quarter of school. I have decided to grade their plan and presentation. I will not formerly grade the implementation.