Essential Questions
How have my stories defined me? How has my neighborhood taken shape over the years? How can we use statistics to understand a community?
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Project Overview
Students will be looking at two key aspects in this project- “Our Communities” and “Our Stories.” Within looking at “Our Stories,” students will be examining themselves, their lives, and their own personal stories. Through this self-reflection, and reading the novel Bud, Not Buddy, students will produce a personal narrative writing highlighting one of the most significant moments of their life. In examining “Our Communities,” students will look at the history of their neighborhood and/or key neighborhood landmarks. Through a partnership with the organization Outside the Lens students will learn basic photography and will create a final art piece that represents their neighborhood. Students will also design surveys and collect and analyze data in order to understand our community mathematically.
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Student Products​
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Neighborhood Art Piece: A blend of photography and writing that represents the student and their neighborhood.
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Digital Magazine: A digital magazine using LucidPress that will include their artistic statement, personal narrative, neighborhood writing, visual display of class data, and photography.
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Exhibition
Student photography will be exhibited in the Outside The Lens Gallery in Liberty Station. Students will also share their research and writing process information in the courtyard.
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Student Work
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