Like the American Memory project, your principle objective is to state clearly what you think the Fair tells us about what Ameican values and beliefs at that time, or what was most important to the culture. Those students who did not present the American Memory site in class will serve as the pool of students who will be asked to present a segment of the 1893 Fair site in class on the due date and explain their sense of the culture of the time. This project description will be revised and amended. These are people who have left their homelands for the United States and have decided to resettle in the Nashua region with their families. Most of the adults in the classes that we will visit are now only able to read at the 3rd and 4th grade level.
Some classes meet during the day, and others at night.
Our role will be to teach them something about American history and culture to these students while helping them to improve their English language skills. The ESL students will be supplied with a copy of the book selected, so your job will be to read the book yourself, prepare a list of discussion questions to be distributed one week in advance, and then facilitate a discussion during a one hour classroom period. In order to prepare to respond to questions that may be asked of you, teams may have to do some addtional research to understand the topic beyond what the text selected provides. We will devote two class sessions to the first book, and one session to the second. This will amount to nothing more than sitting in on one of the classes on the day and time that you have signed up for in order to get a feel for the classroom.