ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy 7th Grade ELA + Theatre Ms. King / Ms. Shanteler
Ms. Shanteler’s students are reading The Giver in ELA, and thinking about the elements that make up a community. We decided to develop a mock community, and have been exploring communication and listening skills, conflict management, team-building, and self-care. We are practicing these things in order to gather strategies for creating a community that reflects our shared values, and strives to be a place where our motto “Enough For All” is in place.
Here, the students brainstormed ideal values or challenges they wanted to address in the categories of Education, Jobs, Housing, Health Care, Civic Duties, and Laws. They then did a gallery walk of each other’s ideas, and either checked ideas they agreed with, or asked further questions about the ideas that needed clarification.
This happened after our daily meditation- which is something we are proud of, because we are becoming leaders in managing our physical and emotional selves!
