Social Studies

Social Studies Concept Books- (Non fiction)-Your students can create books that focus on important Social Studies’ topics. Topics such as Immigration, The Civil Rights Movement,  and The Early Pioneers, are examples of topics that can be explored. The concept books can be designed around your school’s current Social Studies curriculum, focusing on a particular grade area. Students will also study and research texts that focuses on the selected topic.

The Hip Hop Project- (Performance Component) From the mc’s to the b-boys, students explore the hip hop culture. What are the components that make up their own personal hip hop world? How can they use hip hop to strengthen their individual or collective voices? Can they compose a critical response to the issues that the hip hop culture addresses within its’ music and various art forms? Whether your students are regular students or average everyday day hip hop heads, it’s time to make some collective noise via poetry (rhyme), a little spoken word, and on the serious tip, some serious composition (essays) that will get their minds to thinking about the issues that are facing our young people today. Word!

The Peace Writer’s Workshop- (Exhibition Component) Have your students ever started their own Peace Campaigns? With this workshop, your students can take a stand on the issues that are affecting world peace. They’ll explore ways that they can use their writing to affect change, and hopefully, present effective solutions to some of the problems that keep peace from within their reach. So if your students are rebels, revolutionaries, or just plain old Joes, now is the time to let their voices become known. Power to the people!

The Urban Planners Writer’s Workshop- What’s going on in your students’ neighborhoods? Have they ever written a letter their councilmen? What are some things, if any, that they would like to change about their neighborhoods? Have they ever considered composing their own neighborhood proposals? They’ll take a look at the dynamics of a neighborhood, while at the same time developing creative and critical compositions that explores the question, how can we make our neighborhoods a better place to live?