Exploring Identity and Diversity in the classroom

Essential Question

Are people all the same?
How am I the same as other people? How am I different from other people?

Texts

Visual

Two Friends

This photograph depicts two children playing. One child has multiple disabilities and the other child does not.

Realistic Reflections

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Ability

July 2, 2014

Informational

Families

This excerpt explains that families are defined by love, caring and sharing, not the number or gender of its members.

Ann Morris

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8

Topic

Religion Class Immigration

November 7, 2014

Literature

Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together A Pourquoi of Prejudice A PLAY IN 3 ACTS

A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day allows wonderful new friendships to be made. Later, when the siblings tell their parents about their new friends, they are told never to play together again. Find out why in this easy-to-produce play that teaches about the serious topic of prejudice.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2

Subject

Civics

Geography

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 5, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 19, 2014

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Cracking the Code

During Cracking the Code, students examine texts for bias related to race, gender, class, religion, age and sexual orientation, among other identity categories.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RL.K-2.7, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.6, RI.K-2.7

July 19, 2014

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Readers' Theater

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RF.K-2.3, RF.K-2.4, RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.3, RI.K-2.1

July 19, 2014

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Identity Artifacts Museum

Students create a display of artifacts to represent aspects of their identities.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Do Something

Oral Interviews

Students conduct interviews and record personal experiences focused on a specific theme. They synthesize and present the information as a drawing, poster, paragraph or bulletin board.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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Exploring Identity and Diversity in the classroom

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