This is a very fun and interesting period of my Immigration Challenge Project. This week started with our team who placed immigration photographs at the Roasting Company in St Helena. They did a great job with their photos, assisted by a fantastic mentor. They will be exhibiting their fantastic photographs through November 14. Then, today, November 1, two teams presented their immigration altars at the Dia de Los Muertos event at Napa Valley College in St. Helena. I was very impressed with their altars..they did an amazing job, and also had to deal with what to do when it rains at an event. They had to think on their feet, and they did it.
Francisco Jimenez will be here in the Valley this week and two of our teams are doing presentations at his event at St. John's in Napa, the Lincoln Theatre in Yountville, and at Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School. While that is happening, other teams will be presenting their challenges on the quad at RLS and will be discussing their projects and their challenges with, hopefully, an interested audience.
On Friday, we have a speaker coming form Mike Thompson's office who will discuss government policy on immigration with the assistance of the team who is doing just that. That group will introduce the speaker and engage the 8th grade class in a discussion on immigration with the help of the professional. Hopefully, it will work!
After their challenges, they have a week to prepare the presentations which will trace their journey, their process, and their reflection during this project. During the week of November 16-19, each team will be presenting to members of the community what they did.
It is a very interesting project and I definitely plan to do it again next year. I think it is a process, but worth it. For those who have seemed sleepy and disengaged throughout the process, I think they will find that they see what they could have done when the others present. I do not think it will be successful for all, but has potential for awakening for the individual students in the future. They have been exposed to so many cool things.
I am loving it and am eternally grateful to Jennifer Marinace, the 8th grade English teacher, for doing this journey with me.
Francisco Jimenez will be here in the Valley this week and two of our teams are doing presentations at his event at St. John's in Napa, the Lincoln Theatre in Yountville, and at Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School. While that is happening, other teams will be presenting their challenges on the quad at RLS and will be discussing their projects and their challenges with, hopefully, an interested audience.
On Friday, we have a speaker coming form Mike Thompson's office who will discuss government policy on immigration with the assistance of the team who is doing just that. That group will introduce the speaker and engage the 8th grade class in a discussion on immigration with the help of the professional. Hopefully, it will work!
After their challenges, they have a week to prepare the presentations which will trace their journey, their process, and their reflection during this project. During the week of November 16-19, each team will be presenting to members of the community what they did.
It is a very interesting project and I definitely plan to do it again next year. I think it is a process, but worth it. For those who have seemed sleepy and disengaged throughout the process, I think they will find that they see what they could have done when the others present. I do not think it will be successful for all, but has potential for awakening for the individual students in the future. They have been exposed to so many cool things.
I am loving it and am eternally grateful to Jennifer Marinace, the 8th grade English teacher, for doing this journey with me.