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  1. Nov 2017
    1. After the tea party, we dive into the readings and mov-ies. I want to saturate students in the stories—memoirs and fiction—about language.

      I wonder where the idea of doing a history mini-unit came from. I think it's confusing. It takes the eye off language.

    2. Because of time, my classes didn’t study each language situation in depth; instead, we looked for patterns across the stories.

      This issue of depth and looking for patterns is an especially difficult one for ELLs. I wonder how we will address it in our playlist.

    3. They write narratives, poetry, and a culminating essay about language. For their final “exam,” they create a “take-it-to-the-people” project that teaches their chosen audience an aspect of our language study that they think people need to know in order to understand contempo-rary language issues

      I love this a an outline for what to create for posts on Youth Voices:

      • narratives
      • poetry
      • a culminating essay about language
      • a "take-it-to the people" project, teaching others
    4. Depending on how many pieces of the unit I include, this curriculum takes between five and 10 weeks.

      I wonder how long Louise plans to do this unit and how long we can expect youth to work through playlists based on this curriculum