Archive for the ‘4th Grade’ Category

Amanda’s Tale of Two Cities

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Grade: 3rd- 6thJen JPEG19
Topics: Moving, diversity, critical consciousness, white privilege
Created by Jennifer Spitz, Alumni- NYU Undergraduate Teacher Education Program

Written by Jennifer Spitz, Amanda’s Tale of Two Cities is a children’s story meant to help children come to terms with their developing sense of themselves in the world.  This story is particularly helpful to read with children of more privileged backgrounds, particularly White children who have little exposure to diversity, to support them in developing empathy, solidarity and critical awareness.

Find out more: http://amandastale.wordpress.com/

Exploring Identity through Realistic Fiction

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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Grade: 4th grade
Topics: Identity: race, gender, etc. realistic fiction, self-appreciation, personal awareness
Created by: Alissa Levy

This unit was created as a way to promote positive self-identity within the mandated literacy curriculum.  By exploring the genre of realistic fiction, students learned about their own identities- race, gender, home language, home country, age, and understood how those identities worked in the world around them.

Find out more: http://www.alissalevy.wordpress.com

Beat it! Defeat it! Racist Cookies, We Won’t Eat it!

Monday, June 1st, 2009

img_2850Grade: 2nd-5th
Topics: Current and historical racism, current events, civil rights
Social Justice Skills: protests, letter writing, questioning
Created by Undergraduate Childhood Teacher Education Program at NYU

This unit was created in response to a NYC bakery that sold racist cookies. The lessons links this incident to historical racism using children’s literature, teach about antiracism and provide opportunities
for social action.

Find out more: bree-beatitdefeatit.blogspot.com