The Dream Keeper’s Quest
Kasalina Maliamu Nabakooza
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This visual art unit meaningfully implements the school district’s academic standards because students will be engaged in reading comprehension, critical thinking and creating visual design. With instructions provided in English and Spanish, students will deepen their understanding of history by reflecting on questions set by academic standards. Students will have formative learning experiences through field trips to the Eli Whitney Museum and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem which will bring the history they learn to life, so that when they read about Harlem in Langston Hughes’s poetry they can envision the place themselves from their own memories. Students will be encouraged to take creative risks and develop social skills as they follow the example of group collaboration modelled by the poet Langston Hughes and peers such as Arturo Schomburg, Brian Pickney and Ashley Bryant. Students will reflect on essential questions about history, art and poetry. They will learn about the lives of other people throughout history and respond with their own ideas about the world around them through printmaking and poetry. Students will be empowered to express their view of the world in Spanish and English by reading and responding to the text Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Eric Velasquez. This unit actively engage students in their learning through creating and connecting to poetry.