Essential Question
- •What does it feel like to be belittled or criticized because of your identity?
- •How do social inequities impact the lived experiences of individuals?
- •How do power and privilege change the way we express and present ourselves?
- •How can I be proud of who I am and celebrate others?
- •What does it mean to feel good about myself and how can I express that I like who I am?
- •What part do culture and history play in the formation of our individual and collective identities?
- •How does struggle help define who we are?
- •What are the differences between how I live and how others live?
- •How can I learn more about other people?
- •How am I the same as other people? How am I different from other people?
- •What are gender and gender identity? What are some of our ideas about how people of different genders “should” be or act?
- •What is a stereotype? How might stereotypes affect people as they grow up?
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July 19, 2014
