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Today was our last lesson with the students. We focused on advocacy for this lesson, and we also focused on a celebrity figure who has made an impact in society. As with all of our previous lessons, we started with community building. We asked the students, "What is your favorite sport to play or watch?" Students responded with baseball, football, soccer, and one said she didn't really like sports, but if she had to pick, she would pick volleyball. We then moved on to our expectations, where each student had the opportunity to read an expectation from our list. My partner then guided the students in completing our interactive word wall. Once we finished our introduction activities, we jumped into our lesson for the day. I displayed our first primary source of a protest from the 1990s for student to complete their "I see, I think, I wonder" worksheet. Students got a chance to share their findings. Then, I displayed a photo from a more recent protest from the Blac...

In today's lesson, I worked alongside my partner to teach students about the culture of California, with a focus on Native American culture. I began the lesson by helping my partner start a discussion where students shared foods connected to their own culture. This helped build a personal connection to the topic of today's lesson. We then introduced the lesson overview and guided students through an interactive word wall activity.  I supported the transition into analyzing primary sources by helping explain expectations and assisting students as they completed a senses worksheet while observing images of Native Americans in California.  As the lesson continued, I helped answer student questions and guided discussions about what they noticed, including explaining how clothing and daily life reflect cultural values. I also presented a second primary source and supported students in completing the same analysis activity. After the primary sources were completed, we dived deeper i...

In this week's lesson, we learned about economics and how goods, services, and natural resource plan a role in economics. In this lesson, we started with a slightly different community-building activity. For this activty we did a " Would You Rather " slideshow by having the students move from side to side for the option they chose. After we completed the community building, we moved on to our interactive word wall and went over some important words about economics. For the next activity, the students participated in filling out the "I see, I think, and I wonder". worksheet while looking at the first and second primary sources. After they finished filling out their sheet and shared their thoughts and ideas with the rest of the group, my partner and I talked about the gold rush through discussions and reading two books that were about the gold rush. After teaching about the gold rush, we moved on to talking about goods, services, and natural resources. I went over...