Ethnic Studies · Week 16 · Power, Equity, and Community Action
Students Who Changed What Colleges Teach
Tracing 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.
- Students will
- Students trace how student activists at San Francisco State in 1968 and 1969 pushed for the first College of Ethnic Studies, and explain how supporters and critics debated it.
- SEL skill
- Set a goal, name an obstacle, and choose a strategy to keep going
- What it looks like
- Students practice setting goals and persevering through obstacles, and name strategies that help them stay on track.
- Content focus
- Students Who Changed What Colleges Teach
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means managing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so you can set goals and keep working toward them. 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.Social Movements and Equity: California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum theme, Social Movements and Equity
- ESMC.History and Movement: California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum theme, History and Movement
- 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.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging ways people change societies, promote the common good, and protect rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
More self-management activities for Ethnic Studies
- Many Ways to Belong Self-managementExamining how people hold several identities at once and practicing calm responses when someone makes an assumption about who you are.
- 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.
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