Exploring Identity and Community
How can we work together to create an open, supportive, and reflective learning community?
Lesson adapted from Facing History and Ourselves Back-to-School Toolkit: Building Classroom Community
NAMES AND IDENTITY
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“ORIENTATION DAY”
Read “Orientation Day” and complete an Identity Chart below for Jennifer using words and phrases from the reading.
Jennifer
An identity chart is a diagram that individuals fill in with words and phrases they use to describe themselves as well as the labels that society gives them.
“ORIENTATION DAY”
Answer the following questions.
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WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Answer these questions in Padlet:
INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY CHART
Complete a Starburst Identity Chart below for yourself.
Your Name
At the ends of the arrows pointing outward, write words or phrases that describe what you consider to be key aspects of your identity. At the ends of the arrows pointing inward, write labels others might use to describe you. Add more arrows as needed.
LEARN ABOUT EACH OTHER’S IDENTITIES
Choose one question to respond to in Flipgrid
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Answer these questions in Google Classroom:
WHAT IS A COMMUNITY?
Drag the dot on the spectrum below to indicate your opinion of the statements.
Communities are made up of people who are more or less the same. | |
Joining a community means you have to give up some of your individual identity. | |
Communities have certain rules for membership. Not just anyone can belong. | |
For a community to be strong, all members must like each other. | |
A history class is a kind of community. | |
The United States is a kind of community. | |
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— Suzanne Goldsmith
“Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise.”
Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other.
SKETCH an image that represents this idea about community from the quote above.
TELL -- Summarize the quote above in 3-4 words.
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They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshipping a god.
SKETCH an image that represents this idea about community from the quote above.
TELL -- Summarize the quote above in 3-4 words.
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To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise.
SKETCH an image that represents this idea about community from the quote above.
TELL -- Summarize the quote above in 3-4 words.
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COMMUNITY
Answer the following questions.
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CREATING A CLASSROOM CONTRACT
The next lesson in the series is creating a classroom contract.
I do one differently than Facing History, but wanted to provide the link here.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Answer these questions in Padlet:
THANKS!
Created by Stacy Yung (@stacyyung)
Lesson adapted from Facing History and Ourselves Back-to-School Toolkit: Building Classroom Community
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