What activism style best suits you? Students across 5th-7th grade took this interactive quiz to find out the ways that they can become real changemakers.
Biography
Ms. Sharping is a highly-qualified teacher with over 20 years of experience and middle school teaching endorsements in reading, math, science, and social studies. As a product of the Chicago Public School system, Ms. Sharping is dedicated to public school education and arts integration. Ms. Sharping graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Elementary Education. She earned her masters from the American College of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Her favorite way to teach is through discussion, small group activities and projects. When she is not teaching, she enjoys spending time with her family, painting, and playing competitive tennis.
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5th graders made connections to the Indian caste system by identifying roles within our school community that paralleled the roles and responsibilities outlined in the different Varnas of the Indian caste system.
6th graders completed a bubbling cauldron metaphor to connect the various factors, groups, and emotions that set the stage for groups like the Nazi party to rise in power prior to WWII.
Time to celebrate our 5th graders!! Earlier in remote learning, 5th graders engaged in various service learning projects, one of which was sending letters and care packages to our Armed Forces. Delta Company sent our 5th graders a certificate of Appreciation for their support, a WWI patch the company wears, and most of all their thanks for our students! We salute our 5th graders and our Armed Forces!
Say, Mean, Matter: 7th graders have been hard at work analyzing sources and excerpts focused on the hope and fragility of American democracy. Students are looking critically at how democracy has continuously been fought for in history.
Which kind of person are you: bookmark or dog ears? Students have been checking in and getting to know one another even more with fun little check-ins like this to get the conversation started!
Who said learning can't be fun! 5th grade has been actively engaged with Escape Rooms and trivia games like Kahoot to continue learning about topics like Ancient Egypt and Alcatraz!
Guess That Artifact
Sometimes checking in with students to see how they feel is about seeing who or what they connect to in an image.
7th Grade Civic Self-Portraits Gallery Walk in remote learning helps students engage with each other's work and better understand how each person sees themselves engaging in our democracy.
Students in 6th and 7th grade reflected on democracy and the rights and responsibilities of a citizen in a democratic society. Students used a fun interactive site called Mentimeter to create word clouds around our discussions, with the larger words emphasizing common threads in our students' thinking. "Community" was a word that popped up across all classes to define citizenship.
Graffiti Walls in Remote Learning!
5th Grade Bio-Poems
Intersection Allies: Making Room For All is a book that introduced 7th graders to reflective discussions about allyship and intersectionality. Students discussed how ideas like "respect" and "tolerance" are made stronger through action and solidarity in order to "Make Room For All".
Students in 5th grade began this new year in remote learning developing their understanding of identity by creating identity webs/wheels to reflect on the different parts that make them who they are.
