Culturally Reflective Essay

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3.c.1 Select, adapt, and use culturally responsive, age‐ appropriate, and linguistically accessible materials. This artifact is documentation of a lesson taught during my two-week internship in Alabaster City Schools. The internship was with an ESL Summer Camp, pertaining to third-grade students. The focus of this ESL Summer Camp for third grade was architecture around the world geometry in buildings, drawing shapes with tools such as (protractors, rulers, compass) Construction, design, planning, building. This artifact displays the use and need of culturally responsive classroom materials. I was able to obtain multi- linguistic material through Home Depot. They supplied the classroom with bi-lingual butterfly house directions for

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