Documents tagged with individual and society

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.
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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 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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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Identity & Community Lesson 2: What Shapes Your Identity?

This lesson includes activities to deepen and broaden students’ ideas about identities.
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Identity & Community: About the Unit

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Identity & Community: Introduction

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Identity & Community: Table of Contents

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