The ABCs of Social Justice: creating a bilingual book to help foster literacy skills, critical thinking, and individual engagement in young adults who speak English and/or Portuguese.
by Ana Paula Lopez
created on Nov 02, 2021 modified on Feb 09, 2022 04:43
Alphabet e-book on social justice movements (individual and group movements) that seek to change their communities' reality in the US and in Brazil.
1. Raising awareness - Discussion on what the importance of social projects is. more detail
2. Teletandem - Getting to know colleagues and figuring out project partners. more detail
3. Reading and analyzing peer's previous work - Getting to know what has been done by other more detail
1. Visualizing our final product - Discussing the project's purpose and relevance more detail
2. Organizing the group work - Diving groups per letter from the alphabet more detail
1. Google Classroom - Creating a virtual class environment more detail
2. Individual reports - Students' individual reports on the main phases of the project more detail
3. Book's progress - kanban board - A tool to organize and keep everyone's work on track more detail
4. Book's rules and brainstorm - Students cocreated the rules more detail
5. Community interviews - recording, editing and publishing - conducting interviews that were the base of students' final texts to the book more detail
6. Editing, illustrating, designing layout, and publishing - A sentence that summarizes this task. more detail
7. Effective writing - Working on creative writing skills more detail
8. Writing, feedback, and revising - Students need to share their texts with the instructor to receive constant feedback. more detail
1. Students' assessment - Use of different assessment types more detail
2. Final product assessment - Assessing students' group work more detail
