One Hen in the Classroom Week 1 Day 4

On Day 4, BELL carried out its nation-wide "Summer Learning Day", which was a day about students identifying their specific goals and coming up with action plans to achieve those goals. Thus, I was unable to enact the lesson plan designed for that session of One Hen (the character profile cards, etc.) . However, I did use this day to tie in as much of the One Hen lessons we've discussed thus far as possible, in terms of goal-setting, obstacles, etc. This was especially useful as the scholars identified their own goals they wanted to achieve this summer and comparing them to the type of goals that Kojo set for himself. In our discussion of the obstacles that Kojo faced in trying to establish his own business, I decided to introduce the term "classism" to the scholars in describing why the banker refused to give Kojo a loan. Though I thought that this was important for scholars to know, given many of their own socioeconomic conditions, I didn't really know how scholars would respond to it. Surprisingly, however, several of them already knew what that term meant, and they compared it to the term "racism."As an educator with a social justice-orientated pedagogy, I was very excited at this. It was also exciting how easily the scholars seemed able to identify the goals and obstacles of Kojo, which highlighted that they really had comprehended a lot of the story. On Monday, I still plan to review the major themes and events of the book before we jump into establishing our own business teams.