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CCSS 2011 Presentation of Active Learning Projects for English Language Learner Achievement featuring Declaration of Independence activities
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California Council for the Social Studies Conference March 5, 2011
Active Learning Projects Empower English Language
Learners
Lanore Larson
Active Learning Projects Empower English Language Learners
AgendaIntroduction and expected outcomesVocabulary Building ActivitiesVarying level of challenge in an activityNon-traditional instructionsNon-traditional assessmentsHands-on activityDebrief and review of supporting scientific research
California Council for the Social Studies Conference March 5, 2011
Active Learning Projects Empower English Language Learners
Presenter Lanore Larson
ExperienceGraduate School of Education, Loyola Marymount UniversityPerforming Arts Magnet School, Hollywood HighSchool for Advanced Studies, Hollywood High
EducationM.S. International Education, U.S.C.M.B.A. International Business, Education and Research, U.S.C.Contemporary World History Project, Stanford University Complex
50th Annual California Council for the Social Studies Conference March 5, 2011
50th Annual California Council for the Social Studies Conference March 5, 2011
Active Learning Projects Empower English Language Learners
Intended Outcomes of session
Familiarity with an engaging active learning project to teach the Declaration of IndependenceFamiliarity with examples of strategies to provide access to content to their English Language LearnersFamiliarity with the sociological and neurological basis of successful active learning projects
What are Active Learning Projects?
Collaborative, constructivist lessons to challenge students to develop academic skills and content knowledge to solve authentic problems
Active Learning Projects Empower English Language Learners
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Vocabulary Building Activities(whole class or individual)
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Students write definition with word origin to emphasize how languages acquire wordsStudents write similarities to words in their primary language Students explain the term to a five-year-old
Vocabulary Building Activities
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Create an illustration of the wordCreate a pictoword for Independence
Students demonstrate understanding using spatial and visual intelligence and creativity, rather than verbal-linguistic skills
How to vary the level of vocabulary and writing challenge in an activity
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Provide vocabulary or have students define wordsStudents can translate on a word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence, or paragraph basisHave students write in their primary language and translate it into English Have students write in a hybrid with some primary language words
How to vary the level of vocabulary or writing challenge in an activity
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Group size can range from 1 to 5 to adjust supportCarefully assign sections based on student proficienciesOpportunity to rehearse can be given to certain or all
students prior to cold Readers Theater reading
How to vary the level of vocabulary or writing challenge in an activity
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Model how to evaluate which issues would have the most impact on colonists to include in their declaration
Required number of key ideas may be variedVary the requirements for video and slide show creation (length, soundtrack, animation, closed captioning)
Non-traditional instructional delivery
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Visual – students can view video re-creations, posters, other students’ illustrations of vocabularyAuditory – students can read aloud, listen to
re-creations, classmates’ presentationsParticipatory active learning – students can break
down and analyze primary source to write their own version
Non-traditional assessments
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Auditory - students write in rhyme, create a song or use a popular song
Kinesthetic – students act out the delivery of the DeclarationVerbal-Linguistic – students tweet sections or a summaryVisual - students draw illustrations, create a slide show or video
Non-traditional assessments
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Slide shows and videos can include: animation (with proper credit) a soundtrack with closed captioning on video and text on slides
Writing your declaration with a focus on the audience
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Different tones (logical or emotional , respectful or angry) would be most effective for:
Convincing colonists to rebel Convincing the King to give more autonomy Convincing Parliament to give more autonomy Convincing other countries to be our allies
Students’ primary language may be more formal than English, offering more choices in phrasing
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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The beauty and power of the words and phrasing of the Declaration of Independence will inspire students when writing their own declaration.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such form, as to them shall seem, most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objectives is designed to reduce them under absolutedespotism,
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it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient suffering of these Colonies;and such is now the necessity which causes them to change their former systems of government.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has refused his assent to laws, necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws, of immediate and pressing importance.
He has called together legislative bodies at distant places, for the sole purpose of tiring them.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing his invasions on the rights of people.
By refusing his assent to laws, He has made judges dependent on his will alone for their stay in office, and for the amount and payment of their salaries.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent her swarms of officers to harass our people.
He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies.
He has affected to make the Military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has given his assent to legislation for quartering large bodies of troops among us.
For protecting these troops, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders they commit on the inhabitants of these states.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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For imposing taxes on us without our consent.
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried.
For taking away our charters, abolishing our laws and altering the forms of our governments.
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring to themselves the power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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He is at this time bringing. armies of foreign troops to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has made our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas bear arms against their country,to become the executioners of their friends and brothers, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has tried to bring on the peoples of the frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for relief in the most humble terms.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled, do, in the Name of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States:
Read-Around The Declaration of Independence
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each otherour lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Rewrite your own declaration
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State the actions of the British government that most affect your life in a negative way State how you would like those actions to change Use powerful words, rhythm, and meter to keep the audience interested and on your side Optional: Set to the tune of a song, rap, or television theme song
Present your declaration
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Share your Declaration with a neighboring group
Share 4 lines of your Declaration with the entire group
Active learning projects give content access and skills to English Language Learners
This strategy has been proven to improve student achievement.
collaborative structure provides:peer interpretationconstructive feedback
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The brain retains information in a safe
Students compete within a group, not against every peer
challenging ELLs thrive on grade-level challenges, not “busy work”
collaborative setting Working with academic peers provides feedback, guidance and
a sense of responsibility to the group
Active learning projects use brain research to challenge every student
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Ongoing neuroscience research has strongly supported constructivist teaching – students thrive when actively interpreting new knowledge creatively
Active learning projects use brain research to engage every student
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Active learning projects engage Gardner’s multiple intelligences – ELLs are individuals
Students quickly access content in areas of strength while developing other talents.
interpersonal
intrapersonalspatialkinesthetic
verballinguistic
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Students learn American history by becoming a Wampanoag and planning the first ThanksgivingStudents learn world history by negotiating at the Congress of Vienna in characterStudents learn economics by creating and operating a toy factoryStudents learn world geography while creating brochures for a cruise line
What do other active learning projects look like in the classroom?
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Call or email:
For more ideas, visit the on-line community
http://We.TeachInteract.com
Lanore Larson llarson@socialstudies.com310-839-2436
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Learning by Doing
Learn… Experience…information analysishow to share knowledgehow to communicate informationleadership responsibility
working collaborativelyrole playing & staging eventscreating authentic situationsdeveloping communication skills
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