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Writing, Knowing, Seeing

I Came, I Saw, I Wrote: An Interdisciplinary Writing Unit for Bilingual Students

Ekaterina Barkhatova

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Unit Outline

Introduction (rationale)

A. Problems

Language Acquisition
Unit Goals and Objectives
Vision
Photography
Strategies
Language Arts Block

A. "The Circuit" (The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child) by Francisco Jimenez

B. Migrant Family by Larry Dane Brimner

Social Studies Block
A. If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine

B. Ellis Island. New Hope in a New Land by William Jay Jacobs

Science Block

A. March of the Penguins (2005)

B. "By the Left, Quick March: The Emperor Penguins Migration" by Steve Connor

Lesson Plan 1
Lesson Plan 2
Lesson Plan 3
Annotated Teacher Bibliography
Annotated Student Bibliography
Websites for Teachers
Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
Notes

Viewers are not merely pairs of eyes - they have minds, bodies, genders,
personalities and histories.
-John A. Walker and Sarah Chaplin, Visual Culture

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A.	"The Circuit" (The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child) by Francisco Jimenez
B.	Migrant Family by Larry Dane Brimner

A.	March of the Penguins (2005)
B.	"By the Left, Quick March: The Emperor Penguins Migration" by Steve Connor