For this unit in ELA, we are taking a look at Inspiring Individuals. For the past two years as a first grade teacher, the students have always loved this unit. After we talk about inspiring individuals and what character traits they have and what they do to make them inspiring, I love how students start to make the connection to their own life. They identify their parents as being inspiring individuals, their grandma's and grandpa's, even non-family members. It is just a special time to make a personal connection and see students get excited about it. We have spent the past few days taking a look at Rosa Parks. This sparked such a great discussion on how she wasn't treated equally and my kiddos kept saying how it is not fair and no person should be treated that way. As a class, we identified what she did to change things and how people stood up for what was right. At the end of these lessons, we talk about what character trait(s) she has shown and then students talk about how they have shown that trait as well. For example, if a character was brave in the story we were reading, they write a response on how they have been brave as well. For this story, I wanted to change it up a little bit rather then the normal response. In my first blog, I talked about how we have been working on typing. This was another opportunity to try and implement multiple skills to practice in our response portion. As pictured above, students opened this google doc from Google Classroom. This was in place of their normal response they usually do after a reading. My students had to write about how they were like Rosa Parks, including the character trait Rosa Parks possessed. There was a little catch to this though! :) Students not only had to write, but they had the opportunity to take their own picture and insert there picture on the bus as if they were sitting with Rosa Parks at this time. It turned out much better than I had planned, and students wanted to include their friends and tried to have them join their bus. It was adorable! We ran out of time to finish, so I told my kiddos we are going to revisit this when we come back Monday and finish it. I thought I planned enough time, but it took longer than expected. That is okay though, because we can always come back to it and finish the response. When they are done, they will submit it so I can look at each. I have never left a comment on an assignment or even tried to send it back to them. We will see how this goes on Monday!
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