"The Immigrant's Song" Project Launch

The launch has multiple components: 1. We watched clips from the PBS production "Twilight Los Angeles" to show students examples of first person dra...

 

Models of "good" and "bad" monologues (Monologue Writing Process)

1. This activity was one of the first activities we completed. We read the "bad" monolgue as a class and then answered the questions as a class. St...

 

Reading an Oral HIstory/Interview (Monologue Writing Process)

1. This oral history is from the student publication "I Might Get Somewhere" by Balboa HS and 826 Valencia. We started out reading and discussing th...

 

Interview Skills (Interview Process)

1. This handout served as a guide to help the student conduct an interview. Students were expected to extract an interesting story from their interv...

 

After the Interview Fact Extraction (Interview Process)

1. We used this graphic organizer to make sure that students were listening carefully and extracting essential facts/experiences that they would use ...

 

Literary/Narrative Elements Mini-Lessons (Monologue Writing Process)

We taught a mini-lesson each day, for about 20 minutes. 1. After the students extracted the essential information, we reviewed the characteristics o...

 

Peer Review (Monologue Writing Process)

1. After students wrote the first draft of their monologue (after the "Golden Details" lesson), we swapped papers and peer reviewed using a technique...

 

The Rubric (Monologue Writing Process)

1. Students assessed one another during class using the rubric. They used the rubric to improve their performance. They were assessed by teachers o...

 

Performance Requirements (The Exhibition)

1. After the students polished their written monologues, they were required to start memorizing their lines. 2. While this was happening we used ...

 

Performance Checklist (The Exhibition)

This was our final checklist to make sure that students were ready for exhibition night. Also included is a sample program....

 

Digital Design Overview (The Exhibition)

Along with the oral storytelling piece, students were creating "Flash" design in their digital media class to digitally tell the immigrant story. Stu...

 

Final Reflection

1. After students wrote individually, we conducted a fishbowl to hear student responses....