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Exploring Your Identity

Civic Character & Critical Consciousness in Advisory

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Agenda

Greeting
Reading
Initiative
Debrief

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Agenda

Greeting
Reading
Initiative
Debrief

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Greeting

What is a country you would like to visit?

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Agenda

Greeting
Reading
Initiative
Debrief

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Reading

“Identities are the stories we tell ourselves and the world about who we are.” – Dorothy Holland

What does this quotation get you thinking about?

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Agenda

Greeting
Reading
Initiative
Debrief

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Identity Activity #1: Who Are You?

Pair up students
Decide who will go first, and who will go second

Take turns answering the question: “Who are you?” for 1 minute each
Try to talk for the entire minute
Do a couple rounds to encourage students to explore even

deeper aspects of their identities

--Muhammad, 2020

Adapted from Muhammad, G. (2020). Cultivating genius. Scholastic.

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Identity Activity #2: Social Identity Wheel

Developed by Equitable Teaching at U-M. The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/equitable-teaching

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4. Identities that have the strongest effect on how you perceive yourself?

5. Identities that have the greatest effect on how others perceive you?

Do this as an activity individually

Share your answer out with a partner (focusing on #4 and #5)

Then have them talk about the next set of questions…

Differences between how we see ourselves and how we are seen…

so maybe where we’re going from here is defining racism. moving beyond mean people doing mean things…

Debrief… Enthusiasm? Concerns?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRc-Dw5BfYV5KSCAlV6bcBsZqVk0KHDQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116158053033689315257&rtpof=true&sd=true

Goals

 To encourage students to consider their identities critically and how identities are more or less keenly felt in different social contexts.

 To illuminate how privilege operates to normalize some identities over others.

 To sensitize students to their shared identities with their classmates as well as the diversity of identities in the classroom, building community, and encouraging empathy.

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Debriefing the Social Identity Wheel

Is there a difference between how you see yourself and how you’re seen?
If so, what causes that difference?
If so, what do you wish others knew about you?

Do this as an activity individually

Share your answer out with a partner (focusing on #4 and #5)

Then have them talk about the next set of questions…

Differences between how we see ourselves and how we are seen…

so maybe where we’re going from here is defining racism. moving beyond mean people doing mean things…

Debrief… Enthusiasm? Concerns?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRc-Dw5BfYV5KSCAlV6bcBsZqVk0KHDQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116158053033689315257&rtpof=true&sd=true

Goals

 To encourage students to consider their identities critically and how identities are more or less keenly felt in different social contexts.

 To illuminate how privilege operates to normalize some identities over others.

 To sensitize students to their shared identities with their classmates as well as the diversity of identities in the classroom, building community, and encouraging empathy.

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Agenda

Greeting
Reading
Initiative
Debrief

Do this as an activity individually

Share your answer out with a partner (focusing on #4 and #5)

Then have them talk about the next set of questions…

Differences between how we see ourselves and how we are seen…

so maybe where we’re going from here is defining racism. moving beyond mean people doing mean things…

Debrief… Enthusiasm? Concerns?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRc-Dw5BfYV5KSCAlV6bcBsZqVk0KHDQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116158053033689315257&rtpof=true&sd=true

Goals

 To encourage students to consider their identities critically and how identities are more or less keenly felt in different social contexts.

 To illuminate how privilege operates to normalize some identities over others.

 To sensitize students to their shared identities with their classmates as well as the diversity of identities in the classroom, building community, and encouraging empathy.

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Debrief

What did you like about today’s lesson?
Did you learn anything new about yourself or anyone else?
What could make it better?

Do this as an activity individually

Share your answer out with a partner (focusing on #4 and #5)

Then have them talk about the next set of questions…

Differences between how we see ourselves and how we are seen…

so maybe where we’re going from here is defining racism. moving beyond mean people doing mean things…

Debrief… Enthusiasm? Concerns?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XRc-Dw5BfYV5KSCAlV6bcBsZqVk0KHDQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116158053033689315257&rtpof=true&sd=true

Goals

 To encourage students to consider their identities critically and how identities are more or less keenly felt in different social contexts.

 To illuminate how privilege operates to normalize some identities over others.

 To sensitize students to their shared identities with their classmates as well as the diversity of identities in the classroom, building community, and encouraging empathy.