What is fair?

Essential Question

What does it mean to be unfair? In class? In school? At home? In my community? In the world?
How does unfairness make me feel?

Texts

Literature

The Blind Man and the Hunter: A West African Tale of Learning From Your Mistakes

In this tale, a blind man teaches a hunter to see things in a different light and learn from his mistakes.

Hugh Lupton

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Ability

July 3, 2014

Multimedia

StoryCorps: Mitchel's Sister Is Deaf

“People will make fun of her in school...”

Debbie Watterson and Mitchel Watterson

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8

Topic

Ability

July 8, 2014

Literature

Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo: An Australian Tale of Name-Calling

Although carefully planned at twilight so all animals can attend, things go terribly wrong during this walkabout. The group creates such a terrible hullabaloo that Namarrkun, the lightning man, is forced to show his strength.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 2, 2014

Literature

The Rat's Promise: A tale from the Fipa people of Zambia

This tale, about the hunter and the rat, exemplifies the importance of showing kindness to others even when it is unlikely they will be able to return the favor.

UNICEF

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 3, 2014

Literature

Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together A Pourquoi of Prejudice A PLAY IN 3 ACTS

A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day allows wonderful new friendships to be made. Later, when the siblings tell their parents about their new friends, they are told never to play together again. Find out why in this easy-to-produce play that teaches about the serious topic of prejudice.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2

Subject

Civics

Geography

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 5, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Anchor Charts

An anchor chart is an artifact of classroom learning. Like an anchor, it holds students' and teachers' thoughts, ideas and processes in place. Anchor charts can be displayed as reminders of prior learning and built upon over multiple lessons.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

R.K-2.4, L.K-2.4, L.K-2.5

July 13, 2014

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

Examining Texts

Children will learn about the key components of paper and online text structure. Students will also gain the terminology necessary to talk about the structure and parts of a text.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RI.K-2.5, RI.K-2.6, RL.K-2.5, RL.K-2.6

July 13, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Who's Telling It?

Students explore the same Perspectives central text from various viewpoints and identify author, speaker point-of-view, publication date, intended audience and characters.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RL.K-2.7, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.3, RI.K-2.7

July 13, 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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