Understanding Race and identity

Essential Question

What are my identities?
What identities do I share with my family? What identities do I have that are different from my family?
How am I the same as other people? How am I different from other people?

Texts

Informational

The Story of Suzie King Taylor

Doreen Rappaport tells the story of a young Suzie King Taylor and her brother who attended a secret school for black children in Georgia in the mid-1800s. Later on, Taylor would become the first black woman to teach openly in a freedmen's school.

Doreen Rappaport

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

July 3, 2014

Multimedia

Small Truths: The Immigration Experience Through the Eyes of Children

This film documents English language learners as they write and tell personal stories from their past.

Sarah Yuster

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

Economics

Geography

Topic

Immigration

February 6, 2017

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

Student Tasks

Do Something

Identity Artifacts Museum

Students create a display of artifacts to represent aspects of their identities.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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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Understanding Race and identity

The Story of Suzie King Taylor

Small Truths: The Immigration Experience Through the Eyes of Children

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

Identity Artifacts Museum

Identity Self-Portraits

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