Ethnic Studies · Week 6 · Identity and Belonging
Bridges Across Difference
Using a structured listening protocol to discuss W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of double consciousness and differing views on identity and practicing curiosity rather than trying to win.
- Students will
- Students use a structured listening protocol to discuss W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of double consciousness and how history and community shape identities and explain how curiosity builds trust.
- SEL skill
- Paraphrase a partner's view before sharing your own and ask a curious question
- What it looks like
- Students practice listening and communication skills to build trust across different views.
- Content focus
- Bridges across difference
- Format
- Partner exchange
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through clear communication, active listening, cooperation, and working through disagreements. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- ESMC.Identity: California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum theme, Identity
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST1 Compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and the activities learned. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.9.9-12 Use appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settings.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
More relationship skills activities for Ethnic Studies
- Farmworkers Stronger Together Relationship skillsStudying how Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, and their fellow organizers brought Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers together in the 1965 Delano grape strike, reading growers' perspectives as well, and practicing collaboration across differences.
- Repairing Harm Relationship skillsExamining how governments and communities have tried to repair past harms, such as the redress payments of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and practicing the steps of a sincere apology.
- Gratitude for Those Who Came Before Relationship skillsStudents write thank you notes to an ancestor, elder, or mentor and to a classmate whose story widened their understanding.
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