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Identity & Community: About the Unit
ABOUT THIS UNIT
Rationale: Why teach about identity and community?
Why begin a sixth grade social studies course with an exploration of identity and community? The answer to this question may seem...
Identity & Community Lesson 2: What Shapes Your Identity?
This lesson includes activities to deepen and broaden students’ ideas about identities.
Identity & Community Lesson 9: What Does It Mean to Belong?
“The ‘In’ Group,” a short reading included in this lesson, brings ideas about inclusion and exclusion to a more familiar context—a middle school playground.
Identity & Community Lesson 4: What Aspects of Our Identities Do We Show?
In this lesson, students begin to synthesize their understanding of identity through the creation of a mask.
Identity & Community Lesson 10: How Do Rules & Traditions Shape Communities?
In this lesson, students will think about the relationship between customs and laws (or rules) as it relates to a safe, productive learning environment. They will consider the difference between la...
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Identity & Community: An Introduction to 6th Social Studies
This unit was developed for sixth grade social studies students in Memphis public schools. The content and teaching activities suggested in these ten lesson plans explore themes of identity and com...
Identity & Community Lesson 1: Who am I?
"Who am I?" is a question we all ask at some time in our lives. It is an especially critical question for adolescents. As students study world history, they will explore how individuals and groups ...
Identity & Community Lesson 10: How Do Rules & Traditions Shape Communities?
In this lesson, students will think about the relationship between customs and laws (or rules) as it relates to a safe, productive learning environment. They will consider the difference between la...
Identity & Community Lesson 9: What Does It Mean to Belong?
“The ‘In’ Group,” a short reading included in this lesson, brings ideas about inclusion and exclusion to a more familiar context—a middle school playground.
Identity & Community Lesson 8: How Do Communities Define We & They?
This lesson focuses on how we categorize people within our communities as well as how we place labels on members of other communities.
Identity & Community Lesson 7: What Makes Memphis a Community?
In Lesson 7, students explore the meaning of community in a more concrete way. Through describing Memphis, Tennessee, a community with which they are all familiar, students will begin to identify i...
Identity & Community Lesson 6: What is Community?
With Lesson 6, students move away from the study of individuals to the study of groups of people. An investigation of world history is ultimately an exploration of how groups of people formed commu...
Identity & Community Lesson 5: Who Are We?
In this lesson, students begin to explore the concept of community by describing their class as a collection of people with unique identities.
Identity & Community Lesson 4: What Aspects of Our Identities Do We Show?
In this lesson, students begin to synthesize their understanding of identity through the creation of a mask.
Identity & Community Lesson 3: How Do Others Define Your Identity?
In the first two lessons, students engaged in activities in which they answered the question, “Who am I?” Yet, even as we struggle to define our unique identity, we are being defined by others. In ...
Identity & Community Lesson 2: What Shapes Your Identity?
This lesson includes activities to deepen and broaden students’ ideas about identities.
Identity & Community: About the Unit
ABOUT THIS UNIT
Rationale: Why teach about identity and community?
Why begin a sixth grade social studies course with an exploration of identity and community? The answer to this question may seem...
Identity & Community: Introduction
INTRODUCTION
WELCOME TO FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
Through professional development seminars, resource books, study guides, conferences, and Web activities, Facing History and Ourselves provides ...
Identity & Community: Table of Contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Facing History and Ourselves Facing History in Memphis, Tennessee About This Unit
Rationale: Why teach about identity and community? Structure: How to use this cur...
