Teacher: Ms. Stoermer
Fifth Grade

Ms. Stoermer is a teacher consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project.

 
  Based upon a six-week unit on Heritage, workshop participants in Ms. Stoermer's class focused on reading and the writing process, with each student creating a poem about his or her culture, background, and/or sense of identity. Next, students formed groups of three and collaborated to combine their individual poems, titled "Where I Am From," to produce a group poem, called "Where We Are From."

The assembled poem served as an integrated voiceover script for each group. Working together, every team of students gathered and selected digital images to illustrate their poem, created titles, worked with transitions, and experimented with special effects to complete their project.

To view the digital documentaries, click an image below.

 
   
Fruitvale Elementary School Videos: "Where We Are From"
         
  by Adam, Robert   by Addis, Thalia   by Alasha, Giorgiana, Samantha   by Alex, Jabari, Jocelyn   by Aleze, Jesus, Yvette  
         
  by Alonzo, Chris, Jasmine   by Daijion, Kyle, Pedro   by Gabriel, Jasmyne, Jose   by Isa, Jerry, Jonathan   by Jessica, Patrick, Simon  

                 
  by Michael, Tatiana, Xirix                  

 

Where We Are From
Fruitvale Elementary School
Oakland Unified School District
Oakland, California