Ethnic Studies · Week 3 · Identity and Belonging
Many Ways to Belong
Examining how people hold several identities at once and practicing calm responses when someone makes an assumption about who you are.
- Students will
- Students explain how a person can belong to several groups at once, analyze how others' assumptions about identity can limit people, and practice calm responses to assumptions.
- SEL skill
- Use a breathing pause and a calm sentence when an assumption is made
- What it looks like
- Students practice calming strategies and choosing a steady response when someone makes an assumption about them.
- Content focus
- Many ways to belong
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Self-management
Self-management means handling your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach your goals. More self-management 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: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.10.9-12 Analyze how personal interests and perspectives affect the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, and rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas of a primary or secondary source and summarize them accurately.
More self-management activities for Ethnic Studies
- Japanese American Incarceration Self-managementExamining Executive Order 9066, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and reflecting on how people endured injustice and how a nation later apologized.
- Students Who Changed What Colleges Teach Self-managementTracing how student activists at San Francisco State in 1968 and 1969 pushed for the first College of Ethnic Studies and how its supporters and critics debated it.
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