Protecting Individual Rights

Essential Question

What does it mean to be unfair? In class? In school? At home? In my community? In the world?
How is my life easier or more difficult based on who I am and where I was born?

Texts

Informational

The Story of Suzie King Taylor

Doreen Rappaport tells the story of a young Suzie King Taylor and her brother who attended a secret school for black children in Georgia in the mid-1800s. Later on, Taylor would become the first black woman to teach openly in a freedmen's school.

Doreen Rappaport

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

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

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Anchor Charts

An anchor chart is an artifact of classroom learning. Like an anchor, it holds students' and teachers' thoughts, ideas and processes in place. Anchor charts can be displayed as reminders of prior learning and built upon over multiple lessons.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

R.K-2.4, L.K-2.4, L.K-2.5

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

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

abbykowalewski

Protecting Individual Rights

The Story of Suzie King Taylor

Cracking the Code

Anchor Charts

Fairness Fair

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