Exploring Women's History

Essential Question

What does it mean to be unfair? In class? In school? At home? In my community? In the world?
How does unfairness make me feel?
How have people been treated unfairly in the past?

Texts

Informational

Jerrie Mock

Tamera Bryant relays the story of Jerrie Mock and her dream to fly an airplane around the world. In spite of naysayers, including her family, who tried to remind her that girls grow up to be wives and mothers, Jerrie followed her dream and became the first woman to fly an airplane around the world.

Tamera Bryant

Grade Level

K-2

Subject

History

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 9, 2014

Teaching Strategies

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

Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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lknowles

Exploring Women's History

Jerrie Mock

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Community Puzzle Mural

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