LGBT Understanding

Essential Question

Why might people not feel safe to express all their identities?
How can we make connections across our differences?

Texts

Multimedia

School Is a Place to Ask Questions

LGBT school leaders speak to a group of students about their own identities and explain why it’s important to ask questions and learn more about people who are different from ourselves.

I Learn America

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

December 11, 2014

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

Write to the Source

The Pages of My Life

The Pages of My Life asks students to demonstrate their writing skills when constructing a personal narrative.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.3, W.6-12.4

July 19, 2014

Write to the Source

Where I Stand

Where I Stand asks students to demonstrate their argumentative and analytical writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.1, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

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Learning for Justice Staff

LGBT Understanding

School Is a Place to Ask Questions

Four Perspectives

The Pages of My Life

Where I Stand

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