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Everyone--This is what we have so far. Please feel free to comment, even challenge us on how we are going to streamline all of our info into just 4 days of 90 minutes each lol. I would love to hear all your thoughts, both positive and improvement-based. Thanks!

Before the first class, we are posting printed images of global migration and images of social movement signage at the front of the room in a collage grouping. We thought this could not only spark conversation but provide our students with inspiration for their own designs for their migration/movement T-shirts they will be making that week.

As the class begins, we plan to introduce ourselves and our goals for the week as it relates to our topic. We have two videos we are considering for our intro section. One shows the trajectory of migratory patterns for thousands of years, and this is the link:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0

We then plan to open the discussion in a participatory format based on the following video. We don't think we will show the actual video, as they would have already seen the first one and this one moves a little too slowly, but the ideas are key to the introduction of our topic. We thought it would be more engaging if we did an activity involving the wipe off board/chalkboard, and we could either have volunteers come up to the board to write their own ideas of what either "pushes" or "pulls" people from their original home and to another, or we could teach it by asking the class as a whole and writing it down ourselves as the discussion commences. Here is the "Push/Pull" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF86TGM3eSE

Then we thought we would move them into a personal ice-breaker, which has two goals--to get them up and moving around after listening to us talk, and to help them get to know one another. Derya came up with an ice breaker of pairing them with a piece of construction paper and one marker, with the point of the activity being both people have to hold the marker together and find a way to draw their "dream house" without being able to verbally communicate with each other. The goal of this activity would be to show them that all people have their own ideas about home and life in general, in life our own personal ideas are impacted by the presence of others, and in the process of learning to work together we gain knowledge of another's perspective, as well. 

To end the first day, one of us is going to tell our "life bios" with regard to our own experiences as migrants. After explaining our story, the class gets a chance to interview us on whatever they would like to know about our life up to this point. We plan on either preparing a short PP of ourselves and/or bringing in a personal item or two that means something to us and our personal identity/home. 

We have more ideas for the remainder of the week, but I thought I could walk you all through them one day at a time, as setting them all out for you on here might be a little too overwhelming for one post. Below is a very rough skeleton schedule so far. 

I think the challenge for us is to streamline everything we want to do because we have the large topic of migration/movement (which I think is important to introduce a few social movements as a form of migration--imagery ties in to that concept and we are having them incorporate imagery in the form of T-shirts) and two art forms. Just to break the days down, here is how I see the schedule so far. These times could be off, so see what you guys think. With this schedule, we are doing an up-and-down type of session, with them starting and ending each day in a a group lesson of some sort, broken up in the middle with a classroom activity where we move around. 

Monday:

First section--30 minutes: Introduce self and concept (Video, Push Pull factors). 

Second section--30 minutes: Ice-Breaker of House drawing

Final section--30 minutes: Personal Bio/Interview 

Tuesday:

First section--15 minutes: Introduce social movement/imagery as form of migration (Video, images on internet)

Second section--45 minutes: T-shirt art and clean up

Final section--30 minutes: Personal Bio/Interview

Wednesday:

First section--15 minutes: ???

Section section--45 minutes: T-shirt art and clean up

Final section--30 minutes: Personal Bio/Interview

Thursday: 

First section:

Second section: Digital Project--Selfies and group pics, then PP creation?

Final section: