AMI Artifacts
Due to the Coronavirus, our education system has undergone drastic changes. Educators have had to quickly adjust to continue to support their students. Below are artifacts from the AMI (Alternative Means of Instruction) work I have implemented during this time. Although the circumstances are not ideal, this experience has proved my resilience and flexibilty as an educator.
Celebrating Student Work Virtually
For my Creative Writing classes, I planned to have a poetry slam to celebrate their writing for our month long poetry unit. Unfortunately, we were quarantined before that could happen. I decided to make a poetry website, so we could still share our work from the semester. Every students' favorite poem they wrote is published on the website, I also included poems we wrote as a class. There is a document linked on the website called "Lines to Savor" where we all copied and shared lines that we wanted to celebrate from each others work. We met on Google Hangout to read those lines and discuss why those lines were impactful. This was an uplifting way to end our poetry unit, even though I had to shift my plans mid unit.
World Wars Unit:
Virtual Teaching
For my Pre-Ap English and AP World History block classes, my mentors and I created a unit on the World Wars that explores how types of cultural expression- art, music, literature, poetry, film, and even science- are often cathartic responses to significant global changes and challenges. This unit is especially relevant because of the current crisis and it shows students how cultural expression might help them make sense of our new normal. In order to adapt to virtual teaching, I created multiple videos to guide them in the process of their projects for this unit.
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Driving Question:
How is culture (art, science/tech, music, and literature) influenced by conflict and change or vice-versa?
Project 1:
Students will create their own cultural expressions in response to current societal changes such as coronavirus, immigration, climate change etc. Possible Responses: curated playlist, poem, visual one pager, art piece, short story. Students will make a video to present their response and provide analysis on how their piece addresses a societal change.
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Unit Text:
This shift in online learning has changed how we discuss literature. Each teacher in our classroom leads a weekly book club via Google Hangout on a war novel. Students chose from 4 novels: 1984, The Things They Carried, Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five. I am leading the Catch-22 book club. Below are my book club discussion notes and calendar.
My Example for Project 1: Response to the Coronavirus
Poetry Workshop for Project 1