Inquiry Presentations - Civil Rights Leaders 'Resilience'

So it started with an incident on the other side of the world which generated much conversation amongst Room 2 students.  'George Floyd' was the hot topic in our class and it was very clear that my students had formed their own opinions on the devastating incident which has now become globally recognised.  What we also noticed is the changes that are happening internationally with companies/organisations changing some of their business marketing in fear or being accused of discrimination or racism (where the conversation started from).   It was interesting to hear the types of authentic emotions that were being presented by my students and how passionate they were at what is happening outside of the world they know (home, community, school) Being exposed to what is happening around the world raised a few conversations starters - here is examples of brainstorms/new words that we did as a whole class to generate thought provoking discussions/debates/connections.

Super proud of the effort put into the presentations and the conversations had around the new knowledge that was being discovered.  We learnt so many new words as a class and were able to use those words during discussion times - also in our presentations.  A few pictures of Rm 2 presenting their inquiries in class.  Q & A's at the end also a Kahoot (Windsor won lol) Really cool quote that concluded Sofaia's presentation:

'A riot is the language of the unheard - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that'.