Navajo Story Cord and People make a Difference
Using the story cord: the tassles and beaded parts act as prompts for the story teller.
This is not only a practice for oral presentation but gives a real sense of history as in the eye of the beholder. It also gives family at home a reason for believing that school values them.
This technique can be used for any story/biography/history lesson.
Give each person a biography of someone known to have made a difference or have them search the web with a suggested list of historical figures the class has brainstormed.
http://womenshistory.about.com/sitesearch.htm, http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html or http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html are three good sites.
In pairs or groups of three let each person summarize his/her bio and then help each other verbalize how these people would act today in terms of the immigration issue. Any other issue could be used.
Situation: Immigration officials come to your school to round up parents of the children they are bringing or fetching.
Biographies
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