Week 7

      This week my co-teaching partner had the opportunity to implement our Social Studies Unit for Black History Month. We planned three lessons about Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. We tried to engage the students with videos in each lesson. Along with each lesson we also read a story about the person associated with the lesson. All of the students displayed their knowledge through a writing activity. For the lesson about Bojangles, the students had to write a letter to a friend telling them about Bojangles and then had to tell their friend what they would do to entertain people. For Langston Hughes, they had to write about the important facts in his life and they had the opportunity to share them with their peers. The last lesson about Duke Ellington, the students filled out a biography about Duke Ellington. They had to share his main accomplishments and some facts about him. All the students demonstrated great understanding of the lessons and they all surprised me.