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Our Work in PROGRESS
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This project-based learning unit is designed to team
high school ENL students (English as a New Language) with college bound
Spanish students. The unit’s main thrust is to introduce students to
historical Indiana by reviewing the last 150 years reflecting on its
growth. Students will brainstorm and select a particular focus, research,
determine how these changes have impacted the quality of life and present
findings. |
some of the photos in the collage were taken from the Conner
Prairie web site
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will
be."
-Kahlil
Gibran
The Driving Question:
In what ways has
PROGRESS
transformed the quality of life
in Indiana
in
the last
150 years?
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Amy Russell and Stephanie Reinert collaborated on
this unit in hopes of bringing together two unlikely groups of students
and giving them a common goal. This unlikely pairing will create a
dynamic of a bicultural community not normally experienced in a
regular classroom. This diverse, bilingual environment of cooperative
learning will have many secondary learner goals. Students, while
practicing both languages and depending on one another, will learn
essential and critical thinking skills from one another in a non-threatening environment built
on mutual respect. |
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