Poverty in America

Essential Question

How is your identity shaped by the community you live in?

Texts

Multimedia

StoryCorps: Growing Up Poor

“I wasn't like other kids.”

Noe Rueda and Alex Fernandez

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

Economics

Topic

Class

July 8, 2014

Multimedia

StoryCorps: It Was Never a Slum to Me

“They called it slums but it was never a slum to me.”

Carol Jacques

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class

July 8, 2014

Informational

On April 14, 1947, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the lower court decision in Mendez v. Westminster, which required the school to integrate and set the stage for Brown v. Board of Education.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Immigration

August 7, 2017

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

These surveys ask students what they know or how they feel about specific words in the text they are reading.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Problem Solver

Problem Solver asks students to demonstrate their argumentative skills when identifying problems and solutions in writing.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

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

July 19, 2014

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

Write to the Source

What's the Impact?

What’s the Impact? asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.

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

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Poverty in America

StoryCorps: Growing Up Poor

StoryCorps: It Was Never a Slum to Me

A Tale of Two Schools

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

Problem Solver

So What?

What's the Impact?

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Poverty in America

StoryCorps: Growing Up Poor

StoryCorps: It Was Never a Slum to Me

A Tale of Two Schools

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

Problem Solver

So What?

What's the Impact?

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