Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze mentor texts and multimodal exemplars to identify how purpose, audience, message, structure, diction, syntax, and graphic features shape meaning about identity and family legacy.
Students will be able to investigate family culture, migration, sacrifice, and educational opportunity through interviews, artifacts, and community stories to build an evidence-based understanding of personal legacy.
Students will be able to synthesize firsthand research and source notes into a focused problem statement about what younger students should understand about family legacy and education.
Students will be able to plan and draft an AP-style personal essay that develops an engaging central idea about identity, family journey, and educational responsibility using strategic organization, commentary, and purposeful evidence.
Students will be able to revise and edit written drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, diction, sentence fluency, and standard English conventions in response to feedback.
Students will be able to prototype and refine an age-appropriate multimodal legacy piece for elementary or middle school audiences that translates family identity and educational purpose into accessible language and design.
Students will be able to justify design and rhetorical choices in an oral reflection and portfolio defense by explaining how evidence from user feedback shaped their final essay and multimodal product.
Products
Family Legacy Research Notebook and AP Personal Essay Portfolio
Each student submits a research notebook with interview notes, artifact analyses, mentor-text annotations, and planning tools, plus a revised AP-style personal essay about family culture, identity, and education. The portfolio includes drafting evidence and a brief oral reflection explaining key revisions and rhetorical choices.
Legacy Live! Youth Audience Legacy Kit and Shared Presentation
Teams create a shared problem statement and a higher-fidelity multimodal legacy piece designed for elementary or middle school audiences, then present it with a narrative showing how individual research informed the final solution. The kit must be suitable for stakeholder feedback and include a collaborative rationale for design choices, audience fit, and next-step testing.
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