PROJECT 2:PICTURE THIS!FITTING IN, STANDING OUT

MAGPI Fellows 2009-2010Social Sciences Team

Susan DarlingtonJoanne JonesPat KuhnMentor –Marilyn Puchalski

AGENDA

Project Overview Project Outcomes Project Highlights Questions and Answers

PROJECT OVERVIEW ESL Students will collaboratively create a design

theme and an implementation plan for a mural celebrating pride in diversity and their unique culture while promoting their connectedness in the multiple communities within which they participate, e.g., cultural, school, neighborhood, etc. 

PROJECT OUTCOMES

During the process, students will confront and answer questions such as:  Why is this mural important? What kinds of things symbolically represent the

ideas students want to portray about themselves and their culture? 

What are the benefits of doing something like this? 

How would their mural design address mutual understanding and tolerance? 

How would it improve sense of community and promote diversity as a good thing? 

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

1) TONY WOLF, BCCC, VIDEO CONF

Video Clip

2) CREATED A WIKI

3) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ACTIVITY

REFLECTIONS ON COMING TO THE U.S.

CULINARY HERITAGE COOKBOOK

4) DESIGNING MURALS

5) ED OSLOWSKI, GRAFFITI ARTIST

6) ESL STUDENT COLLABORATIVE VC

What was your experience coming to the US? Pickpockets, weather, green card not green

What would you like to see on the mural? Superhero, soccer ball, peace sign

What do you miss most? Friends, relatives, pets, freedom

Are schools better here? Yes, free lunch, less walking, no uniforms, better

field trips What are we going to do from here? 

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7) PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS TOUR

QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION