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— WILL BLAIR, M.Ed student, University of Oklahoma
Do you need an interactive, student-centered project that will encourage social justice activism, group collaboration, and online research and writing? Go beyond just reading dusty tomes written by dead people and regurgitating boring details. Delve into highly-engaging spoken-word poetry, music videos, TED Talks, an essay written by a 17-year-old Oklahoma author — and follow them up with highly engaging student discussions. This unit contains everything you need to guide students through reading and viewing modern literature covering social justice topics, responding to daily essential questions, planning and writing a culminating essay, video, presentation, or children’s book that encourages students to tell their stories and take a stand for others.
This complete project unit includes everything you need to guide students through three weeks of research and preparing a final product. Students may choose from writing an essay, recording a video, designing a presentation or writing a children’s book. The unit includes class discussion questions for the following print and non-print texts:
“The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Link to video)
“If You Think Racism Doesn’t Exist” by Oklahoma author Jordan Womack (Full PDF text included)
“Cuz He’s Black” by Javon Johnson (Link to video)
“Where is the love?” (2003) by The Black Eyed Peas (Link to video)
“Where is the love?” (2016) by The Black Eyed Peas (Link to video)
“To My White Friends Who See Tragedy in the Black Community and Say Nothing, Make it Personal” by Kiara Imani Williams (Link to text)
“I’m NOT Black, You’re NOT White” by Prince EA (Link to video)
Daily Presentations: A complete set of slides for each day, including a writing prompt, think/pair/share activity, discussion questions, reading and writing activities, and closing reflective prompts.
Teacher’s Guide: The next three weeks have already been planned for you, complete with a daily chart showing exactly what you’ll do and which standards it’s aligned to. Just print out the page and hand it to your principal, or keep it on your desk for easy reference. Includes daily task list, daily writing prompt for bellwork, discussion topics, activity notes for each day, and reflective writing or discussion prompts for closure.
Common Core State Standards Alignment: This unit has been aligned day-by-day to the CCSS.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts Alignment: This unit has been aligned day-by-day to the OAS-ELA
BONUS! Recommended Online Resources: You’ll receive a list of nonfiction articles, and a relevant graphic, video and poem. Students can refer to each of these resources in the culminating projects.
Self/Peer Revision and Editing Checklists: Get your English loving students on board with peer reviewing! These easy-to-fill-out forms encourage constructive criticism.
Revision Rubrics: Judge the early drafts of an essay or project based on the ideas, organization, and voice. Don’t let your students think they can’t tell a story just because they struggle with spelling. Show students what you’re looking for in their final projects so they can meet and exceed your expectations!
Editing Rubrics: Once students have told their stories, help them clean up the grammar, usage, and mechanics with the editing rubric. Be sure to give students multiple opportunities to complete their best work.
Final Project Grading Rubric: You’ve already done the hard part. Students use the rubric as a checklist to make sure they have all the pieces of their project, staple it together, and turn it in. You simply grade them on the hard work they’ve already done.
NEW! Ongoing Social Justice Email Updates: We’ll send emails with links to articles, essays, and other media updating you on social justice issues that you can share with your students. The emails will also include essential questions that you can use to spark a class discussion, incorporate into a writing project, or use to inspire a service learning project.
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