Project Exchange
ACTIVITY: The Launch
Project: A Correspondence Between History and My-Story
(a holocaust museum installation)
SUMMARY
Goals
Details
Assessments: Student reflections/journals, Student discussions, Student writing
Description
Warm-Up and Discussion:
* What are your expectations for this project?
* What do you hope to get out of it?
* What do you hope it will be?
Review and Discuss the Project Overview
Quick-talk on the notions of providing Testimony and being a Witness
Read the definition of correspondence: 1. Agreement with something else or with one another; 2. A similarity or analogy; 3. Communication by exchange of letters
Discuss: What do you notice?
Based on this understanding/definition of a correspondence, think more deeply about the nature of our project: A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND MY-STORY. Free-write on the following topics:
* What are the 'messages' of the events you have been studying about that are in agreement with the messages you live, or that you feel we need in our world? Why?
* What is similar about what people in the past have gone through and experienced and understood, and what you have studied, gone through and understand in your own life? Can you make an analogy between the two?
ACTIVITY RESOURCES
(e.g. rubrics, examplars, websites, etc.)
A Project Overview
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Assessment Rubric
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Introducing the Project
PPT to guide students through the introductory activities....
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Workshop Schedule
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