HTEX 4th Grade 2018

WHAT CAN WE DO?

High Tech Elementary Explorer's Fourth Graders implore you to stand for justice!

Essential Questions
✦ How can I be proud of who I
am while celebrating others?

✦ How can we use art to help

solve problems, show support
or address an important issue
in our community?

Driving Question
✦ How can I, as an agent of
positive change, use an art
form to advocate for justice
within my community?
Inspiration for our
work at HTEX
Project Overview
Our daily news is soaked with images, stories, speeches, and
rhetoric about race, gender, religion, and class in America. This is a
monumental opportunity to utilize current events and issues in the
classroom to explore social justice and create a community based
on love, understanding, and empathy. The rest of the year will be
devoted toward this endeavor in the hope that students will

✦ Chicano Park (Art and Murals)
✦ Mario Torrero (Muralist)
✦ Amplifier.org (Visual Art)
develop a strong sense of themselves, an appreciation for others,
an understanding of injustice in our world and those that have
advocated for those wrongly treated, and create change through
action.

✦ Centro Cultural De La Raza We want to create a community of caring students that can
(Art, Culture, Music) empathize with each other. Earlier this year we focused on who we

✦ World Beats Center (Music)
✦ Gill Sotu (Poetry)
✦ Teaching Tolerance.org (Anti
Bias Framework)
✦ Our community of unique and
passionate parents, experts,
students, and teachers.
are as learners, friends, peers, and citizens of our classroom and
school community. Students will broaden their understanding of
themselves, their peers, and the cultural groups that they are a part
of and interact with on a daily basis. We will read, assess, and
discuss stereotypes, injustices, and agents of change that helped
promote equity in our social, environmental, and our governing
systems. Together, we look to change the world by recognizing
injustices and standing up for what is right. Stand with us.

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Fourth Grade Timeline and Learning Targets
FEBRUARY:
✦ Students will choose a climate hero and make an art
piece that represents a call for eco justice.
✦ Students will explore gender social norms through
videos, articles, read alouds, and discussions.
✦ Students will learn vocabulary such as bystander
and upstander.
✦ Students will begin writing small moments of
unfairness and connect data to enhance their call to
action.
MARCH:
✦ Students will explore immigration, race, and
ethnicity issues in San Diego and the United States
and how it applies to their lives.
✦ Students will observe the art of Chicano Park with
an expert and begin to create powerful symbols
that represent something they are passionate about
standing up for.
✦ Students will begin both a poetry unit and delve
deeper into lyric analysis.
APRIL:
✦ Students will choose an injustice that they are
passionate about changing and begin planning
their call to action.
✦ Students will continue to analyze song lyrics and
begin cowriting their own with messages of justice.
MAY:
✦ Whole School Exhibition, May 2nd
JUNE:
✦ Students will complete their art form to represent
and express their passions and call to action.
✦ 4th Grade Exhibition - To be determined
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HTEX 4th Grade 2018
TEACHING TOLERANCE STANDARDS
✦ I can feel good about my identity without making
someone else feel badly about who they are. (ID.
3-5.4)
✦ I feel connected to other people and know how to
talk, work and play with others even when we are
different or when we disagree. (DI.3-5.9)
✦ I know that life is easier for some people and
harder for others based on who they are and
where they were born. (JU.3-5.14)
✦ I will speak up or do something when I see
unfairness, and I will not let others convince me to
go along with injustice. (AC.3-5.19)
✦ I will work with my friends and family to make our
school and community fair for everyone, and we
will work hard and cooperate in order to achieve
our goals. (AC.3-5.20)
COMMON CORE LITERACY
✦ I will refer to details and examples in a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly (CCSS RI.
4.1)
✦ I will write opinion pieces on topics or texts,
supporting a point of view with reasons and
information (CCSS W.4.1)
✦ I will engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (CCSS SL.4.1)
COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS
✦ I can represent and interpret data.
✦ I understand decimal notation for fractions, and
compare decimal fractions.