Profiles of a Multicultural Society

Author(s): Rita ElWardi

E-mail Address: relwardi@mail.sandi.net

School: Hoover High School

Grade Level: ESL 5-6 (grades7-12)

Principal Currlcular Areas Addressed: Language Arts & Social Studies

TPFS Section: Identify the section of the Triton/Patterns Fall Symposium you're attending. E.g. Thursdays @ Kroc or Release Days @ Dana

Topic: In groups of three, ESL students will choose a well known person who is an immigrant or a first generation American with cultural ties to another country. They will read a biographical sketch of that person and then search for more information to develop the profile.

In this space, write a short paragraph about the idea. What's the main idea? What kinds of things might be included? What's not going to included?

This project will cover...

Learning Goals:

What kinds of things do you hope your students will learn? You might want to put objectives in the form of a bulleted list like this:

Student will learn...

Learner Task:

What are you going to ask your learners to do/perform/create to indicate that they've learned what you wanted them to learn? An oral presentation? A letter to the President? A HyperStudio representation of a tidal pool? A simulated diary of a pioneer?

The culiminating task in this project might be...

Resources:

What websites have you already identified that might be useful? What books, tapes and other offline resources do you know about?

Resources for this project idea might include....

When you're done drafting your idea, erase all the green text prompts, and save the file under an appropriate name like tide-investigation.html. Your instructor or one of the mentors will collect it for you and it will be posted on the symposium website in a day or two.