Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character file containing information such as a portrait, physical description, hearing status, deaf identity, personality description, family description, school description, memorable events, a personal history, and a list of favorite things.

Concepts

character development

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Additional Tags

deaf, deaf culture, el education, expeditionary learning, expeditionary learning: molly sanchez, character, creating characters

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

W.4.3.b