Passion Speech Pre-Work

Blog #5

In preparing for passion speeches, task #3 is followed by another jam board. Students observed passion icons Kid President and Kid Black for a second time. For two minutes, they wrote all visual, verbal/nonverbal cues to be a good speaker. Please click on the link below for the results:

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1vW-DubYq-1mHy5EwvRCKSzpbBYtk63Hmk80m9DZDIs0/edit?usp=sharing

Aloha Kakou, This project entailed not just finding passions in the life of our students, we discovered it built trust, camaraderie, and collaboration, after physically being away from school for seven months. Happy Blogging! Rae Tang

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Passion Icons

To begin our Passion journey, we brought two infamous icons to share their stories with our students. https://youtu.be/l-gQLqv9f4o

Passion Mind Map

Blog #4: Task #2 - Elimination Zone In task #1 students brainstormed passion topics. In task #2, students will select three passion topics and create mind maps on their passions . Here's the clincher: topics of goals, future plans, daily tasks, that included chores, homework, sleeping, and watching television were eliminated and must return to jam board to reassess topics. Please click below for example of task #2: students finding their passion project. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NZA0v403h4M1w35weUAri0hPSIi-JcQssEr0GVShqTI/edit?usp=sharing Aloha everyone, We learned how extremely challenging, (not to mention) time-consuming this project started out. It also was a great way to start a new year, (after seven months of COVID) to help students focus on something really important, themselves. They just didn't know it yet! A hui hou, Rae Tang

Brainstorming YOUR Passion

What did we learn in finding a passion among middle schoolers? Many students couldn't distinguish the difference between passion and goal. Some didn't have interests, collections, or talents to talk about. Others didn't include elementary music lessons, foreign language or sports activities. Below if you click on jam boards, you will get a glimpse of our 7th/8th grade passion topics for SY 2020-2021: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1EGHpIXfPb9N6a6NOAODnLakdQAKZFxRTEp5-vhjgyPQ/edit? usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/1kTct5r36QMqd3j5aqCiX6Z4ygQOkRcmLbeCx_1lxjVo/edit?usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/14eE57IQy_CsKBdo8l_r9OGZMbUKlYSNzFLDCkG0_FlM/edit?usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/1lEe9N7xad09dQInotoIIVM8_4hWRzT_xJYajPPBm28k/edit?usp=sharing

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