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Young Activists - Black History Month

By Ms. Eli Johnson
Grade Level
K-2
private
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What can we do to promote equity?
  • How have people stopped unfairness in the past?
  • How do I know when people are being treated unfairly?
Texts
Literature

My Name was Hussein

Hussein, the narrator of My Name Was Hussein, lives in Bulgaria. His Muslim family takes great pride in their religion and traditions. But soldiers soon arrive in their village and force all of the Muslims to adopt Christian names, thereby inhibiting their freedom and identities.
by
Hristo Kyuchukov
Grade Level
K-2 3-5
Subject
Civics
History
Economics
Geography
Topic
Race & Ethnicity Religion Rights & Activism
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice
July 7, 2014
Teaching Strategies
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.
Grade Level
K-2
July 19, 2014
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Cracking the Code

During Cracking the Code, students examine texts for bias related to race, gender, class, religion, age and sexual orientation, among other identity categories.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RL.K-2.7, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.6, RI.K-2.7
July 19, 2014
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
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Think Aloud

Think Aloud requires readers to stop during their reading to think, reflect and discuss their process. Readers talk about skipping text, rereading, searching back in the text for information, questioning, clarifying, summarizing, making connections, reflecting, predicting and visualizing.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
R.L.K-2.1, R.I.K-2.1
July 19, 2014
Student Tasks
Do Something

Community Bulletin Board

Students showcase artwork and nonfiction writing that addresses issues they found in the text. The result is a visual, collaborative and creative representation of student learning and ideas. An alternative to the bulletin board is a community newsletter.
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Do Something

Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Do Something

Fairness Fair

Students work in groups to role-play or tell stories about real life situations related to fairness, community, diversity or social justice themes. Students then perform their skits or stories for others as part of a class-wide “fairness fair.”
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
Ms. Eli Johnson

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