Exploring Diversity Through "The Breakfast Club"

Essential Question

How do our intersecting identities shape our perspectives and the way we experience the world?
What privilege do people have based on their identity?

Texts

Informational

The Communist Manifesto

This excerpt from the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto establishes the dichotomy between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, which is merely a new relationship of oppressor vs. oppressed in the history of class struggles, as Marx and Engels argue that all societies have had these kinds of contending classes.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Grade Level

9-12

Subject

History

Economics

Topic

Class

January 5, 2015

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Four Perspectives

A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RI.6-12.1, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.4, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Film Festival

Students review films related to a theme in the central text, then plan, prepare for and host a community film festival.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

reagandiane

Exploring Diversity Through "The Breakfast Club"

The Communist Manifesto

Four Perspectives

Film Festival

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