Celebrating Diversity

Essential Question

What is diversity?
Where is it found?
Why should diversity be celebrated?

Texts

Informational

Peace Begins With You

Katherine Scholes begins this informative piece by describing the multi-facted nature of the word "peace" and what it can mean to different people at different times. Then she provides concrete ways that each of us can be a peacemaker.

Katherine Scholes

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Close and Critical Reading

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)

QAR gives students practice questioning the text and identifying literal and inferential questions. Students learn to find different types of evidence and to rely on their own interpretation when doing close reading.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RF.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Identity Portraits

Students interview one another, then draw or paint portraits containing symbols that represent the subject’s identity, beliefs, values or areas of interest.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

MacKennaKaup

Celebrating Diversity

Peace Begins With You

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)

Identity Portraits

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