The History of Our City

Essential Question

What do you love about our city/town?
How do you think growing up in a certain area effects our identity?
How are we similar to our neighbors? How are we different?
Do individuals have worse or better experiences in their life depending on what area they grow up in?
How did the individuals within that community effect your identity?
What is your communities collective (group) identity?
Who were the people that lived in your town/city before you did?
Where did those people go?
What happened to them?

Texts

Informational

Families

This excerpt explains that families are defined by love, caring and sharing, not the number or gender of its members.

Ann Morris

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8

Topic

Religion Class Immigration

November 7, 2014

Literature

Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.

Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino (illustrator)

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

April 7, 2016

Informational

Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish

“Connected to Everything” is a story written by Jennifer Greene and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance. This story is adapted from a traditional tale of the Bitterroot Salish, a Native American tribe in Montana.

Jennifer Greene

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.3, RI.K-2.6

July 16, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

This strategy gives students tools to use when exploring, thinking about and discussing read-aloud texts.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.3

July 13, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

This strategy exposes students to literature that places out-group identities at the center of the curriculum.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RI.K-1.1

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Beautiful Language

Beautiful Language asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing to gain the understanding of others.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

Write to the Source

In Conversation

In Conversation asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

Write to the Source

Small Moment

Small Moment asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing about personal experiences.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

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The History of Our City

Families

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives

Beautiful Language

In Conversation

Small Moment

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