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The Humanities Amped mission is to model and share transformative educational practices that result in people's power to shape their world. |
Humanities Amped's Freshman SEminar CHILDREN'S Book Project
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Humanities Amped’s Freshman Seminar Children’s Book Project provides Baton Rouge public school students with the transformative opportunity to create, publish, and share original children’s books focused on overcoming challenges. Throughout this collaborative project students at a high-needs high school develop crucial skills in communication, literacy, and resilience. Through your investment, at the conclusion of the project students will get to see their hard work physicalized in the form of a printed book, a unique opportunity to hold their success in their hands. The students will then get to experience the direct impact of their work when they present their books to their families and community members at Family Literacy Night and read their books to local students on an elementary school book tour.
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Why This Project Matters
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The Freshman Seminar Children’s Book Project invites over 70 students in 6 class sections to engage deeply with literacy, creativity, and communication through the active creation of a meaningful product. When students’ voices, concerns, and interests are not considered an important part of what happens in classes, they are taught to feel that they don’t matter and that school doesn’t matter. Humanities Amped directly addresses the prevalent issue of school disconnectedness through civically-engaged project-based learning.
While the final product in project-based learning matters, what matters more is what the students learn through the process about collaborative teamwork, time management, persistence, and their own identities. At the Family Literacy Night showcase and elementary school book tour, which follow the project’s conclusion, the student authors have the chance to see themselves as writers and creators, capable of creating work worth celebrating in the world beyond their classroom. This project is about more than books—it’s an investment in our students’ future, their community, and a school culture that values every voice. |
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