Human Rights
Skin again
Author(s): Bell Hooks
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2u6bwiI
Indigo: http://bit.ly/3aAMcET
Social Justice focus: External appearances, especially racial identity
Synopsis: The basic message of this book is that the skin we are in cannot tell our stories. To know and understand one another we must go inside and meet the other person beyond external labels or appearances. Our stories are complex and cannot be defined by superficial assumptions.
Lesson Plan: Justin Plant
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Social Justice
Grade: 4
Lesson: What is the focus of this lesson in relation to the unit?
To help introduce students to biases that they may have and why they are important to identify.
Curriculum Areas: What are possible connections to other curricular areas?
Language, Social Studies.
Curriculum Expectations: What Overall and Specific Expectations will be addressed?
Language:
Overall: Oral Communication
- 2. use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reading- 1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
- Writing: 1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
Specific: Oral Communication
- 2.2 demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour in a variety of situations, including paired sharing and small- and large-group discussions.
- 2.3 communicate in a clear, coherent manner, presenting ideas, opinions, and information in a readily understandable form.
- 2.4 use appropriate words and phrases from the full range of their vocabulary, including inclusive and non-discriminatory terms, and appropriate elements of style, to communicate their meaning accurately and engage the interest of their audience.
Reading:
- 1.1 read a variety of texts from diverse cultures, including literary texts), graphic texts and informational texts.
- 1.2 identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes.
- 1.3 identify a variety of reading comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before, during, and after reading to understand texts.
- 1.4 demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details.
- 1.5 make inferences about texts using stated and implied ideas from the texts as evidence.
- 1.6 extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them.
- 1.7 analyse texts and explain how specific elements in them contribute to meaning.
- 1.8 express opinions about the ideas and information in texts and cite evidence from the text to support their opinions.
Writing
- 1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audi