Confronting Islamophobia Through Media

Essential Question

How are negative stereotypes created and spread?
How can we confront Islamophobic bias and prejudice?

Texts

Informational

Zahrah’s Hijab

As a young Muslim girl, Zahrah wore her hijab to school on what is considered to be the most important day of the week in Islam—Friday. Not everyone at Zahrah's school understands her religious traditions, but a visit from her mom changes this.

Sean McCollum

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

Topic

Religion

July 9, 2014

Informational

The burden of being a young American Muslim

Hailey Woldt describes being a part of a research team that traveled to 75 cities and visited 100 mosques as part of a study on Muslims living in a post-9/11 America. In Brooklyn, a ten-year-old boy tells of being beaten, prevented from practicing his religion in peace and called a terroist.

Hailey Woldt

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

Civics

Geography

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Four Perspectives

A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RI.6-12.1, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.4, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Listen Up! PSA for Change

Students produce digital media to raise awareness and encourage change related to an anti-bias theme.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

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Confronting Islamophobia Through Media

Zahrah’s Hijab

The burden of being a young American Muslim

Four Perspectives

Listen Up! PSA for Change

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