Lesson Worksheet

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Do Now: How do these images make you feel?

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How often do you see images like this in your life?

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Unit 2 Day 19 AIM: SWBAT explain how the black community resists and
endures experiences in modern society by interpreting information from
images and text

TOPIC: Race, Activism, and Culture in America Today

Texts: Black Lives in America: How agency and culture bring communities together today
MAIN POINTS
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How can you be an activist change in this country?

Daily Assessment
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Exit Ticket
How does activism and culture continue to empower and support members of the black
community today?

Criteria for success:

 Claim: The first sentence attempts to correctly and fully answer the question being asked
 Evidence: The claim is supported by 2 or more pieces of evidence from the text our source
 Explanation: The evidence is connected back to the claim through a thoughtful explanation
 Vocabulary from today’s lesson: activism, agency, profiling, discrimination, Black Lives Matter,
protest, social justice, endure, resist, culture, identity, community
 Appropriate grammar, spelling, and transition words between ideas