A variety of classroom experiences are designed to help students access the novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, and interact with it in meaningful ways.
Produce an autobiographical booklet that includes at least 15 different genres—from poems, memoirs, letters and personal narratives to maps, photographs and drawings.
Adapt any chapter as a script. Travel to a nearby African-American cemetery and research names of the dead. Conduct research projects on issues addressed in the novel.
Students make buildings unique to the French culture and are assessed on cultural understanding, based on their explanation of what made their building uniquely French.
Grow "fast plants" and measure the variation in height. Calculate the average height with different numbers of plants to show the importance of sample size.
