8-C-1

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Directions:
On the table below, add at least **five** events or activities you can do during the school year in the right column of the table. Each event or activity should help you address a component of the Achievement Triangle and be appropriate for the time in the school calendar.
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 * 2) Place your cursor in the table cell next to the month and achievement triangle section you want to contribute an event or activity idea to.
 * 3) Add your text in the cell.
 * 4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 for your remaining event and activity ideas.
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Achievement Triangle Event and Activity Ideas List

 * Month || **Achievement Triangle** || Event and Activity Ideas ||
 * August || Know Self || Looking at the diversity of students in classroom share with staff and colleagues mu cultural awareness. Marcia Sangeorzan

Lead department to investigate demographic data to encourage staff to make adjustments to changing student population. Dan Thomas ||
 * August || Know Students || Meet the Teacher Night, go over expectations, curriculum, give out information about how to contact me and gather informtaion about families. Have volunteer sign up. Do ice breakers to become more familiar with my students and to build relationships. Marcia Sangeorzan

Begin team newsletter. Collect information at Back to School Night. Dan Thomas

I am giving each of my students a box of Crayola multicultural crayons in order to draw a self-portrait. Students will share their portraits and information about themselves with the class. -Elizabeth || Thanksgiving is a day we celebrate our country's heritage. Students will research their family's heritage and make a poster depicting their family cultures, values, etc. to be shared with the class. Teresa W. || During the winter break, I will review my classroom library and purchase a few books to be included that are culturally diverse. Teresa W. || I will not be making a huge deal out of February being Black History month; According to Bank, this is three stages back from the ultimate development of a multicultural curriculum--this would be a feature of a Heroes and Holidays curriculum and bordering on tokenism. I would, instead, incorporate African-American voices throughout the school year and throughout the curriculum. Brian Reinking || Patty Price ||
 * August || Know Practice || Starting in August, I'm going to begin my action plan, which is to preview Latino authors, starting with short stories and essays and then moving on to novels, with the goal of choosing a book-length work about the Latino experience by a Latino author to be included in the curriculum for English 11. Brian Reinking ||
 * September || Know Self || To teach personal narrative writing, write a personal piece using Cynthia Rylant's, __When I was Young in the Mountains__ then share with class. Teresa W. ||
 * September || Know Students || Students write a personal narrative using a significant event in their life. Students then read their writing aloud to class. Class can then ask student questions about the event and/or the student's feelings about the event. Teresa W. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">September || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Read the __The True Story of the Three Little Pigs__ by Jon Scieszka. Teach students to listen to everyone’s perspectives. Discuss if two people are not getting along that it is important to hear from both sides. -Elizabeth ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || A fellow teacher of mine did the following one year when teaching OF MICE AND MEN, a story most of us are familiar with. She had her students go to a local orchard for a day, pick apples, and then take the apples to a local food bank. I think this project would address a number of topics: migrant and seasonal labor, poverty, and community. Brian Reinking ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Parent/Teacher conferences to address how students are doing and how I can help. Marcia Sangeorzan ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">October || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Introduce writing topic: Imagine John Smith's version of the Pocahontas story is true. Should Pocahontas be considered a hero or a zero? Consider how this is considered the start of the 13 colonies that became the United States and what happened to the Native Americans because of the United States. Dan Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || I'm going to push heavily the Hispanic College Fair to be held on Nov. 9th, 2012 at a local high school, McCaskey High School, in Lancaster, PA from 9:30-4 pm. Latino students, I believe, are given a day off from school for a college visit for attending this Hispanic College Fair. Brian Reinking
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">November || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || American Indian Day cumulation of learning about American Indians that lived in Indiana through stories, plays, writings, games, food and crafts. Marcia Sangeorzan ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || I will evaluate how well I am addressing the cultural needs of my students. I will use the time during break to continue learning about the cultures in my class. Patty Price
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Time will be spent during this month learning about the various cultural holidays celebrated and why they get celebrated. Students will learn about classmates and their beliefs. I will be sure to make sure each culture in the class is represented. Patty Price ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">December || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">January || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Since we have the day off from school, we learn about Martin Luther King Jr and his famous speech and what it meant for the civil rights movement. The students write their own " I Have A Dream" essays. Marcia Sangeorzan
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || I plan to conference with families in my classroom not only in October by also in February. This will allow be to personally connect with families in order to communicate about student progress and continue to promote parent involvement at a time of year that it historically decreases. -Elizabeth ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">February || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||< <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Complete a fairy tale unit that allows students to compare two versions of a story as well as expose children to other cultures than their own. Texts will include: Little Red Riding Hood/Lon Po Po by Ed Young (Chinese culture), The Three Little Pigs/ the Three Little Tamales by Eric Kimmel (Hispanic culture), The Three Little Bears/Leola and the Honeybears by Melodye Rosales (African American Culture) -Elizabeth ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Encourage students of color to engage with their counselors about potential scholarships available for them to pursue; about this time of year, I usually make an announcement to the AP students that now is the time to fill out the scholarship applications--school, community, national, and their college. I'm going to make this pitch to the general level students and also do some of my own research to see what scholarships are available to minority students through our school, our community, and nationally. Brian Reinking ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">March || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || Underground railroad simulation and through writing what it was like to be a runaway slave. Marcia Sangeorzan ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || While studying why people moved in the 1800s, have students research their families and why their family chose to live in our community or why their family moved to the United States. Dan Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">April || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || Since school is almost finished some students may be ready to check out for the year. I will encourage them to continue to keep working hard through the end of the year. I will include more interactive assignments so that students remain involved. Patty Price ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">May || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || End of year assessment: Students will complete a "Dear Abby" column and respond to a mock letter claiming minorities played no part in early American history. Dan Thomas ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || Reflect on the past year while it is still fresh in your mind. Make some goals for the following year in order to continue to promote cultural competency in your classroom. -Elizabeth ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">June || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Self || I will check my classlist and contact each family. I will learn what I can about the cultures in my class so I can make sure my lessons include the various cultures. Patty Price ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Students || I will meet with the families before school starts. I will find out if there are any holidays the family celebrates during the school year so I can excuse the student from assignments during them. I will also find the perfered way to communicate with the parents and in what language.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">July || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Know Practice || I will conduct home visits for my new class meeting with parents and students. Teresa W. ||