{"id":52,"date":"2018-11-27T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:55:34","slug":"portrait-i-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies: Migration &amp; Culture Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this unit, we explored our cultures within and beyond our classroom and how our culture is related to our identities and backgrounds. We also covered migration to America including what it means to be an immigrant and a plethora of reasons why people move. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A critical discussion and wondering about the reasons why people and communities move pushed students to be conscious, empathetic, and considerate researchers in their discoveries about cultures. Using the Statue of Liberty&#8217;s core values to guide us, we identified the main elements of culture in both new and familiar texts, as well as learned more about the specific cultures embodied in our classroom, primarily Ashanti (Ghana) and Puerto Rican and Dominican (Caribbean). Focusing on how we all got to this place and what makes us all different allowed us to connect in genuine ways and create a space of respect for difference which can be applied outside the school walls and into future experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this portrait, you can find our <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/understanding-goals\/\">learning goals,<\/a> the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/rationale\/\">rationale<\/a> behind my unit plan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/curriculum-standards\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">curriculum standard<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> this unit covered, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/performance-assessments\/\">assessments<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&nbsp;used, the&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/learning-activities\/\">learning activities<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, some <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/student-work-samples\/\">student work<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> examples, and a brief <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-i-overview\/video-commentary\/\">video<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&nbsp;from the unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The complete culture CUP can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/652\/2020\/05\/Migration-and-Culture-CUP-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this unit, we explored our cultures within and beyond our classroom and how our culture is related to our identities and backgrounds. We also covered migration to America including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat20-klegare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}