Gender Identity & Gender Roles
I am Jazz
Author(s): Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2uqVS1T
Indigo: https://bit.ly/2JTrQym
Social Justice focus: Gender Identification
Synopsis: I am Jazz is the true-life story of Jazz Jennings, a child who, in her own words, was born with “a girl’s brain and a boy’s body.” The picture book follows the gradual acceptance by Jazz’s parents and teachers of her transgender reality. Information is provided about the Trans Kids Purple Rainbow Foundation (TKPRF), of which Jazz is an honorary co-founder.
Lesson Plan: Lindsay Jenkins
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Social Justice Issues-LGBTQ Rights (trans rights)
Grade: 6
Lesson: The focus of this lesson is to raise student awareness surrounding the term transgender, (including the importance of ally-ship) by specifically focusing on the life of a transgender female.
Curriculum Areas: Language Arts: Reading, media literacy, visual arts
Curriculum Expectations:
Reading: Overall Expectations:
1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
Reading: Specific Expectations:
1.2 identify a variety of purposes for reading and choose reading materials appropriate for those purposes
1.5 develop interpretations about texts using stated and implied ideas to support their interpretations
1.6 extend understanding of texts by connecting, comparing, and contrasting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them
Writing: Overall Expectations:
1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience
Writing: Specific Expectations:
1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing forms
Media Literacy: Overall Expectations:
2. identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
Media Literacy: Specific Expectations:
1.1 explain how a variety of media texts address their intended purpose and audience
1.3 evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and treatment of ideas, information, themes, opinions, issues, and/or experiences in media texts
Visual Arts: Overall Expectations:
D1. Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process (see pages 19–22) to produce art works in a variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies
Visual Arts: Specific Expectations:
D1.1 create two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and multimedia art works that explore feelings, ideas, and issues from a variety of points of view
D1.3 use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and underst