Juneteenth : Teaching Culture as Resistance

By byonkamoves
Grade Level
6-8
public
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What makes us who we are?
  • How are our identities today shaped by society?
  • What does it feel like to be belittled or criticized because of your identity?
  • How do different parts of our identities combine to make us who we are?
  • What is the difference between feeling proud and feeling superior?
Texts
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
Plan Built By
byonkamoves
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