Talking Walls: Unit Plan

• Students read Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue in teams, choose stories

• Explore software appropriate to the stories

• Each team will devise symbols related to their stories and enter symbol on a classroom world map and timeline

• Students categorize stories in different ways and begin to focus on differences and similarities across cultural perspectives

• Communicate with students in other parts of the world to ask about walls in their community

• Students explore the meanings of customs, traditions, and values

• Students go out into their own community to find and take pictures of walls (digital or scan)

• Students build a web based wall of their community

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