2010+-+2011+Curriculum

= __Ideas and Notes from Summer 2010__ = __2010 - 2011 Curriculum In Action__

__A Kickoff to The Fredrick Douglass Reading Log__
Goal: To teach students that learning to read was something that students had to fight for and to kick-off the reading log with a sense of empowerment and perseverance
 * Fredrick Douglass (history, story, Reader's Theater of Douglass teaching enslaved people how to read)
 * Ruby Bridges (history, story, Reader's Theater)
 * Ann Langone would like to help us host a family night at the library where she can forgive fines and issue library cards. We need to plan this and send out an invite to families. We also need to figure out if we would do this exclusively for Grade 2 or if we would combine it with one or two other Grade levels. We could do this as a kick-off to the school year.

__People talking about Negative Images of Boston Neighborhoods__
__http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/org.wgbh.mla:MLA000733__

__http://main.wgbh.org/ton/programs/5960_clip.html__

__Consideration When Planning Boston Neighborhoods Curriculum__

 * Will planning field work be affected by Heidi and Kate's job share?
 * Will Heidi and Kate split teaching Social Studies and Science or will they share responsibility?

__Ideas to think about__
>> Chinatown, getting the library built in Mattapan, the Flagpole >> competition in Villa Victoria, etc.
 * Make field trips more inquiry-oriented, less like tours with someone talking at the kids. build interest and engagement earlier on.
 * Build purpose for field trips field trips
 * maybe they look at what kids wrote this year, and choose something they are interested in, and craft questions, and then go investigate the answers?
 * create an almanac? Put things in it all year?
 * more video
 * more accountable talk
 * connect to fluency work:
 * plays for Readers' Theater about affordable housing in
 * More block building, more play, more developmentally appropriate

Start off with images of Boston neighborhoods in the news: how is it portrayed?

Investigate with an eye toward finding the good news in each neighborhood.

Final project: sharing publicly the reasons to be proud of each neighborhood.