How Intersectionality Influences a Student's Social-Emotional Well-Being

Essential Question

What are the differences between how I live and how others live?
How can I learn more about other people?
Do different people feel the same way?
How am I the same as other people?
How am I different from other people?
Can people who share my identity still be different from me?
Does everyone have the same rights?
What steps can we take to make something better?

Texts

Multimedia

A Priceless Lesson in Humility

Felipe Morales' telling account of an encounter with a blind woman on the streets of Washington, D.C. was recorded for This I Believe. The NPR project features brief personal essays in which people from diverse backgrounds discuss how their values affect their daily lives.

Felipe Morales

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Ability Class Immigration

July 2, 2014

Multimedia

StoryCorps: I Was the First Black Student

“The students wouldn't speak to me...”

A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

July 8, 2014

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

Race & Ethnicity Ability

July 2, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Value Lines

Students take a stance on a topic related to the central text and listen while classmates explain their stances.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.3, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Community Newsletter

Students compile and publish a showcase of artwork and nonfiction writing addressing issues found in the central text. The result is a creative representation of student learning, opinions and ideas.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

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

mastermelissa

How Intersectionality Influences a Student's Social-Emotional Well-Being

A Priceless Lesson in Humility

StoryCorps: I Was the First Black Student

Two Friends

Value Lines

Community Newsletter

Identity Portraits

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