Teaching Resources

This page provides downloadable lesson plans for teachers in English, Spanish, and German that are geared toward multiple age groups.

Would you like to bring a class to the Visualizing Translation Exhibit in the downtown Ann Arbor District Library or gain ideas for teaching images and stories housed on this website? Are you looking for a structured lesson plan on writing stories of multilingualism and migration with ESL students? Look below for these materials and more.

We will update this site regularly as we continue to develop new materials, so please stop by again soon!

 

English Language Materials

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This lesson plan is geared toward high school students. It provides preparatory exercises and follow up discussion questions for a class visit to the exhibit Visualizing Translation.

It also includes prompts for a follow-up writing exercise.

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This lesson plan is geared toward 4th and 5th grade ESL students, or students with personal experiences of multilingualism or migration. It uses select images from the exhibit Visualizing Translation to prepare students to write their own self-reflective narratives.