Identity and social class

Essential Question

How can I be proud of who I am and still celebrate others?
What are group identities and how do they describe me? Others?
What's the first thing you would think of if someone asked you to describe yourself?

Texts

Multimedia

StoryCorps: Growing Up Poor

“I wasn't like other kids.”

Noe Rueda and Alex Fernandez

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

Economics

Topic

Class

July 8, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Collage of Concerns

Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

keri_schreiber

Identity and social class

StoryCorps: Growing Up Poor

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Collage of Concerns

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