Objectives
Materials
After sharing the story of the Little Rock Nine with students, read Papalotzin and the Monarchs/Papalotzin y las Monarcas with them.
Ask students to make butterflies using colored construction paper, glitter and glue. Assign students to small groups, and ask the group to choose a special color that all of their butterflies will be. (i.e. one group has all red butterflies, the next has all green, etc.) Make sure that no two groups of friends have the same color choice. For the rest of the school day, allow students to play and study only with their butterfly group.
The next day, tell them that the rest of the week they'll need to "Mix It Up" and do classroom activities with a different colored butterfly every day.
As a follow-up activity, students can cut their butterfly wings into four equal parts and then trade with each other so that all the butterflies are multicolored, representing how they have "Mixed It Up."
Discussion or Writing Prompts
Links:
[1] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/papalotzin-y-las-monarcas-discussion-questions