How do our implicit biases negatively affect our views and relationships with others of diverse backgrounds?

Essential Question

How do our implicit biases negatively affect our views and relationships with others of diverse backgrounds?
How do those views propagate social injustice?

Texts

Literature

Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question

In this poem, the speaker--who is Native American--responds to a series of unspoken discriminatory questions. The reader can deduce the missing questions based on the speaker's responses.

Diane Burns

Grade Level

6-8

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Say Something

A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.2, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

So What?

So What? asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative skills when writing to gain the understanding of others.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.2, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

Plan Built By

How do our implicit biases negatively affect our views and relationships with others of diverse backgrounds?

Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question

Say Something

So What?

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