Yes, Heide, about the Dream Catcher project--
 
	My favorite projects came about after our class made dream catchers
and this led to a series of events related to dreams.
	 We had been watching the video series Connect with English and a
dream catcher is given as a gift. Having been a children's librarian,
finding and making simple crafts is something I like to do with students so
the students spent a couple of class periods making one for themselves.
During the next week my students were discussing where they hung the dream
catchers in their homes. The next thing I knew, the students were talking
about needing one for every bedroom because they didn't want anyone in their
homes having bad dreams. 
	So we made more and some advanced students did some research on
dreams and created a Power Point show to share with the class. 
	Then the rallies for legalizing illegal immigrants began to be in
the news, so we talked about students' personal goals or dreams for their
lives in the U.S. From this they recorded their personal stories about how
they came to the U.S.
	Then we practiced doing mock television interviews because some of
the students were going to the rallies and I wanted them to have something
to say if they were interviewed by a television station. They thought this
was a good idea as the previous year a student from our school had been
interviewed during a school trip to our state capitol.
	And it continued from there.
To Bonnie,
	I believe it isn't necessarily the projects that inspire passion,
it's the passion that inspires the projects and listening to what the
students are talking about or what they are asking questions about offers a
keyhole into the possible projects. 

Heading out for now,

Lee Williams
Kyle Learning Center
ELL II Teacher