Posts tagged Language Arts
Doing the Right Thing
Doing the Right Thing

Going back to school to earn your high school diploma can be a struggle; so can wrestling with complex issues of social justice. In a CAW integrated art class at Innovations Diploma Plus High School in Manhattan, students are challenged to do both.

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in-school, integrated, literacy-based, Multimedia, public speaking, high schoolScott Lucas, Marketing & Communications ManagerInnoavations Plus Diploma High Schoolart education, Art, curriculum, social justice, empathy, family, Language Arts, literacy, integrated learning, in-school, NYC, public speaking, publicspeaking, t, x, youth development
Good News: You’ve Got Awesome Powers!*
Good News: You’ve Got Awesome Powers!*

Students at Hamilton Grange Middle School are studying Greek Myths in their English Language Arts class. While Greek gods had awesome powers they also had human flaws. To better understand how fictional characters can have complex personalities, these same students will be creating their own versions of gods with a mixtures of powers and flaws in a CAW integrated painting and drawing class.

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in-school, literacy-basedBrian RicklinHamilton Grange Middle Schoolart education, active learning, Art, artsed, arted, Mark Levine, drawing, dycd, nyc dca, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, caw, creativeartworks, creative art works, Greek Gods, galebrewer, hgms, Hamilton Grange, hamilton heights, DYCD, education, inferences, Washington Heights, Jacob Schiff School Campus, literacy, Lightning Theif, Manhattan, reading, integrated learning, archetypes, middle school, myths, ancient greece, red-figure pottery, curriculum, literature-based, ELA, Language Arts