Racism in America 4th Grade

Essential Question

What privileges do I have that others don’t?
Do all people have the same rights?
Can words about identity hurt people?
Why is history important? Does it affect how people live today?

Texts

Informational

Freedom Riders

The freedom riders, black and white, joined together to effect change. Traveling across the South while enduring ridicule and pain, they helped ensure that doors were open to all people, regardless of skin color.

Rhonda Brownstein

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

July 5, 2014

Informational

Beyond the Barbed Wire

Helen Tsuchiya, born a U.S. citizen, tells what it was like to move from her home to an internment camp surrounded by barbed wire after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Helen Tsuchiya and Larry Long

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Immigration Rights & Activism

July 2, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

Four-Fold Vocabulary

Interactive “foldables” help students learn new vocabulary through defining, illustrating and using words in sentences.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

L.3-5.4, L.3-5.6

July 19, 2014

Close and Critical Reading

Agree/Disagree Statements

Agree/disagree statements challenge students to think critically about their knowledge of a topic, theme or text. The strategy exposes students to the major ideas in a text before reading—engaging their thinking and motivating them to learn more. It also requires them to reconsider their original thinking after reading the text and to use textual evidence to support and explain their thinking.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RF.3-5.4, RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Questions that Come Up

Questions that Come Up asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.2, W.3-5.4, W.4-5.9

July 19, 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

Wnhill

Racism in America 4th Grade

Freedom Riders

Beyond the Barbed Wire

Four-Fold Vocabulary

Agree/Disagree Statements

Questions that Come Up

Identity Portraits

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