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This I Believe Affirming Identity and Building Community

Tabitha Pang July 11, 2011 Los Angeles Writing Project

Warm Up
How do you build a sense of community in your classroom? You can
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Describe briefly how you build community List strategies youve used in your classroom Write a list of words that describe what community means to you as an educator

Community
Self Knowledge
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Where Im From race, culture, history, family Annotated Map place, community, world This I Believe values, beliefs, identity,

Knowledge of Others
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Authors Chair Reading the word/Listening to the world

Group Identity
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Rituals Mutual Respect

Writing, Rocks
Linda Christensen
Students learn to sing their lives through writing. They use writing to take the power out of their pain. our lives intersect and we deepen our connections and understandings across lines of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and age.

Paolo Freire
Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which men and women, transform the world .To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it.

A Musician of Many Cultures by Yo-Yo Ma


Yo-Yo Mas This I Believe Essay Listening to National Public Radio one morning, I became inspired.

Annotate the Text

Read, Annotate, Discuss


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Use the following questions to help you annotate the text. What does the author believe? How did he/she come to this belief? What event or experience does the author use to illustrate his/her belief? How does this belief guide the way the author lives his/her life? Whats your favorite sentence, word, or phrase? Does this remind you of a personal experience?

Read the text Annotate the text Underline significant lines Write comments on the margins

3. Discuss

What do you think?


Agree

Disagree

Have your What do you think? worksheet in your hand. Listen to the belief statement read by the facilitator.

Go to the appropriate side of the room: Agree or Disagree. Talk to one person about the reasons for your choice.

Being Content with Myself by KameelMajeed

Americas Beauty is in its Diversity by Alaa El-Saad

Annotate the Text

Read, Annotate, Discuss


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Use the following questions to help you annotate the text. What does the author believe? How did he/she come to this belief? What event or experience does the author use to illustrate his/her belief? How does this belief guide the way the author lives his/her life? Whats your favorite sentence, word, or phrase? Does this remind you of a personal experience?

Read the text Annotate the text Underline significant lines Write comments on the margins

3. Discuss

One Belief Memories


In Your Writers Notebook
Choose one belief that is very important to you. What personal memories or events are connected to the belief youve chosen? Describe them.

This I Believe Mini-Lessons


Beliefs
Agree/Disagree Activity: What do you think? Writers notebook: What do you believe? Brainstorm and make a list.

Read, Annotate, Discuss


R.A.D.: This I Believe Essays Introduce This I Believe Assignment

One Belief Memories


Writers Notebook: Choose one belief that is very important to you. What personal memories or events are connected to the belief youve chosen? Describe them.

Seeing is Believing
Create a poster that helps people see your belief through YOUR eyes.

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