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Essential Question

Does my identity mean I get to do things other kids can’t, or keep me from doing something?
What rights do I have?
Do all people have the same rights?
What are the differences between how I live and how others live?
What does it mean to be unfair? In class? In school? At home? In my community? In the world?
How do I know when people are being treated unfairly?
How have people been treated unfairly in the past?
If a person is in charge, does that mean they can do anything?
How can I be kind to all people?

Texts

Informational

Peace Begins With You

Katherine Scholes begins this informative piece by describing the multi-facted nature of the word "peace" and what it can mean to different people at different times. Then she provides concrete ways that each of us can be a peacemaker.

Katherine Scholes

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 3, 2014

Visual

Dr. Martin Luther King Marches on Washington

This photograph from the Associated Press shows Martin Luther King Jr. in a crowd of people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963.

Associated Press

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

July 2, 2014

Informational

Freedom Riders

The freedom riders, black and white, joined together to effect change. Traveling across the South while enduring ridicule and pain, they helped ensure that doors were open to all people, regardless of skin color.

Rhonda Brownstein

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

July 5, 2014

Visual

Separate Is Not Equal

These two images depict segregated classrooms before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Jack Delano

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class

September 3, 2015

Literature

This Little Light of Mine

In addition to holding a key place in American folk and gospel music, this song has significance as an anthem of the civil rights movement.

Harry Dixon Loes

Grade Level

K-2

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 3, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.3, RI.K-2.6

July 16, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Buddy Share

Students choose a mode of expression—e.g., writing, art or storytelling—to share theme-related ideas and feelings with a “buddy” from outside the classroom.

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

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