banner project lessons
Elementary & Middle 7-10 Class Sequence
Highlights:
- More Structured than Basic
- Medium Length
(7-10 standard class periods or equivalent) - More Scaffolding for Writing Prompts
Resources: Presentation Slides, Slide-by-Slide Directions, Activity Handouts. Writing Templates and Extensions.
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OVERVIEW - SEQUENCE - MATERIALS - SLIDES - DIRECTIONS - HANDOUTS
OVERVIEW
This sequence brings students through the Dreamline sequence of LISTEN, REFLECT, CREATE and SHARE and is similar to BASIC but with the addition of a lesson on values and with more scaffolded directions than the Basic sequence for creating text for a Dream Banner.
Time: Recommended 7 to 10 40-minute class periods or the equivalent.
Age: Recommended for all ages 3rd grade and above. For groups younger than 3rd grade or beginner ESL groups, some lessons need adaptation of reading and writing elements.
Tech : Required computer projection device viewable by class with audio is required. Optional activities with individual student access to internet devices
Skills: Reading, Expressive Writing, Listening, Visual Communication, Public Speaking, Geography, Critical Thinking, Multiple Perspectives, SEL.
- It starts with an overview of Dreamline including a video explaining the basic project and a look at Dream Banners created by other students across the US and around the world.
- It then asks students to look at a poem of Langston Hughes and think about some of the problems in the world that concern them.
- From there, it invites students to imagine a future free of those problems through a guided meditation and to use that vision later to create a Dream Banner.
- It then steps back to ask students to think about what values are, examine some from other students, and then identify 3 of importance to them personally.
- Now students are asked to create text for a Dream Banner that with their values as well as their dreams. They use a fill-in-the-blank sentence starter worksheet to move from themselves to the world in dreams: Me to WE.
- In the next phase, transferring text to fabric, students select and copy words using lines they can see through the fabric on a provided sheet.
- Finally, students add art to their words, guided by teacher example, and samples from the Dream Gallery.
- Students are invited to share and respond to each others’ dreams. The completed Dreamline is intended for public display in the community and all participants are invited to join in the year-end Dreamline Festival.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
- 1 Piece of cloth approximately 8.5×11 in. or 22×28 cm. for each participant
- length of ribbon or similar product long enough to attach all banners to it
- materials for writing on cloth and for decorating cloth — markers, paints, etc.
Measures changes in student empathy, belonging, agency, and pro-social mindset.
dreamline.org/survey1
Lesson Slides
- 14 Slides with videos and web links for projection.
- Content directs discussion and activities and provides information to complete Activity Handouts.
English
Sample slides.
Spanish
Vido subtitles in Spanish.
Meditation audio in Spanish.
Sample slides.
Teaching Directions
- 4 pages slide-by-slide directions.
- Materials list for each slide activitiy.
- Directions for each Activity Handout.
- Printout recommended to view while projecting slides.
Activity Handouts
- 7 pages student Activity Handouts to accompany Lesson Slides.
- Guided Writing Prompt & fabric transfer template.
- Poetic Writing Prompt options.
English
Spanish
