Looking beyond appearance

Essential Question

How can I look beyond someone's appearance?

Texts

Literature

Eat, My Fine Coat!

Which are you more likely to notice: a person’s character or his or her clothing? Hoca has a witty response when the latter is true at a dinner he attends after a day of hard work.

Barbara Walker

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Class

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Identity Self-Portraits

Students create visual self-portraits that contain symbols representing the student’s identity, beliefs, values or areas of interest related to diversity, anti-bias or social justice.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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Looking beyond appearance

Eat, My Fine Coat!

Challenge the Text

Identity Self-Portraits

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