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Text: Parable of the Sower
EQ: How does our reality shape our identities, and how do structures influence our reality?
EQ: How do our identities affect how we experience reality?
EQ: What does a just society look like?

Vocabulary: structure, institution, identity, structural justice, structural injustice, race, class, gender

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Unit 1: The Capitalism Problem - Does Money Buy Happiness?

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Unit 1: The Capitalism Problem - Does Money Buy Happiness?

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EQs: What is Capitalism and Socialism? Do we live in a Capitalist economy or a Socialist one? Where does Capitalism in the US come from and how does it operate? Why are capitalist societies so wealthy, yet so unhappy?

EUs:

Credit/Debt

Income

Economic Machine

Division of Labor

Transaction

Markets

Cycles

Productivity Growth

Debt Cycle

Stock market/bonds

Private property

product

labor

Activities:
The Most Basic Social Unit - Family
The Sociological Imagination
Argumentative essay and debate on topic: Does Money Buy Happiness?

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| Nature/Earth Poetics
How does and has nature shaped poetics in regards to technique and form? How have certain poets grappled with nature in their work?

| Nature inevitably calls into question the idea of permanence--nature’s permanence, human permanence. How do we as readers attempt to gain better understandings of nature through reading poetics that may stray from typical form in order to convey meaning that speaks to nature’s constant influence? |

Know: -literary poetic analysis -inspirations of nature -how has your land shaped you

do:  -use writing to set your relationship with nature  |
Key Concepts
metaphor, history of land, urbanization, de/(at)tachment to land, settler-colonialism, literary devices | RL.11–12.4 W.11–12.5 | 20 days / 4 weeks

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Essential Questions:

- How are people today disrupting or recreating

systems of oppression and power?

- How do the historical events that we learned

up to this point inform the current events

happening in our world?

- What role does technology, including social

media, play in the portrayal of communities of

color?

Enduring Understandings:

- Civil Rights Act, Hart-Celler Act/

Immigration.

- Unions, grassroots organizing, and major

labor disputes.

- Resistance against activists by government

and model minority myth.

- Rights, Religion and Identity.

- The New Geopolitics (Fall of communism,

Vietnam, Middle East, and globalization).

- Disrupting systems of oppression

- Resilience

- Systemic racism

- Anti-racism

- Media coverage

- Nationalism

- Individual freedom and democracy

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Undocumented Literature :
Using: "Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer"

E.Q: What does it mean to be Undocumented and what experiences are correlated to this status?

Some Vocab: Undocumented, Immigration, DACA, ICE, Privilege

Differences in experiences - White vs. POC who is Undocumented

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Unit 4- Class, Capitalism in Crisis, and Worker Resistance 

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Unit 4- Class, Capitalism in Crisis, and Worker Resistance 

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Essential Questions:

- Who started the Cold War?

- How did the Cold War redefine conventional

warfare?

- What would happen if nuclear weapons were

used?

- Why was Communism such an imminent

threat to the U.S.?

- Can an ideological war be more dangerous

than a physical war?

- What was the impact of the policies passed by

the United States during the war and postwar

in the development and/or detriment of

communist-leaning nations?

- How did NATO and other international

treaties affect migration?

Enduring Understandings:

- Response of former colonies to the Cold War

and Liberation

- Proxy wars, Spheres of Influence, Nuclear

threat, Espionage

- Mutually Assured Destruction and aftermath

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Themes/Concepts:
Spanish American War
WWI
WWII

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Themes/Concepts:
Three Pillars of White Supremacy
Colonization

Activities:

Migration Stories

Harvest of Empire

Political Cartoon Analysis

Classmate Profile

Immigration Essay

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Essential Questions:

- What were the key goals of the axis allied

powers?
- Why was the death toll so high? How was the

world impacted by the destruction in Europe

and by the loss of so many lives?

- What contradiction persisted with the

treatment of people throughout the globe

while they fought over the maltreatment of

some?

- Why do people want power? What purpose

does power serve?

- What does justice look like after genocide?

Enduring Understandings

- Terrible things can happen when people are

uneducated, afraid and angry. Hitler rose to

power through popular vote.

- Mob mentality is dangerous and can cause the

general public to make dehumanizing

decisions and atrocities (study of Nazism and

Stalinism).

- Causes and consequences of WWII.

- Comparison of WWII’s actors, goals, and

strategies with those of WWI.

- The enactment of the Holocaust.

- Japanese Internment Camps

- Rosita the Rivoter
- African and Mexicans

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Course Title/Grade Level
U.S. History / 8th grade

One Post for each unit-
Unit Title, EQ, EU, Main Activities
The Constitution
EQ:
How does the Constitution protect it's citizens and Who does the Constitution protect?

EU: Student's will have a better understanding who the Constitution protect and for: WASPS (White Anglo Protestant Saxon)

Main Activity: N/A

Ideas: Community Building Activities, Constitution Vocab, Analyze and Interpret text

Questions/Needs
-Student observe and get acquainted
-Modify lesson plans for students

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| Literature of Identity

How do varying identities align? |

Everyone has a story, and our stories are shaped by our identities. How do we critically look at the way these stories form, and what hope can we derive from these stories? |

Know:  -critical analysis - power dynamics   Do:  -understand how power can work with writing and literature

Key Concepts:
| -Interpretations of race, gender, sexuality -Intersectionality -emotionality -community -forms of discrimination (i.e., racism, anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) - critical hope   |

W.11–12.3d RI.11–12.4 | 30 days/ 6 weeks

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NEED: 9th grade accessible articles/art/videos on global indigenous movement 

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NEED: 9th grade accessible articles/art/videos on global indigenous movement 

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| Argumentative Writing

How to frame arguments and gather information? |

Formulating ideas/perspectives requires us to consider conflicting information and ideologies. How do we responsibly decide what choices we make, and how to we convince others to understand our point of view? |

Know: - analyze sources - gauge credibility - rhetoric

Do: -cite sources - formulate an argument

| -Writing a thesis -gathering information -primary and secondary resources -evidence -claim -counter argument -rebuttal -writing a conclusion |

W.11–12.1a RI.11–12.7 RI.11–12.1   | 30 days/ 6 weeks

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Essential Questions:

Why is this period called reconstruction?

What were the effects of this period on former enslaved people?

What racist social movements this period spawned?

Important to Know and Do

Explain the origins of this period along with its political impact on people of color.

Identify the racist movements this period spawned?

Being able to mention and explain the meaning of the 13, 14 and 15th amendment.

Worth Being Familiar With

Ku Klux Klan

Abolishment of slavery.

Jim Crow

13, 14, 15 amendment.

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Unit 2: Personal Finance - You Can be Rich Today (under construction 🚧) 

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Unit 2: Personal Finance - You Can be Rich Today (under construction 🚧) 

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EQs: What is debt? What is credit? How do you create and maintain a budget?

EUs:

Time Value of Money

Budgeting

Supply and Demand

Opportunity Cost

Activities:
Create budget for future adult self

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Assessment ideas that deviate from traditional tests etc.?

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Assessment ideas that deviate from traditional tests etc.?

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| Modernist Poetry
What are the writing patterns of modernism?
| Modernist poetry changed the traditional course of writing. Almost as if poets asked themselves “How can we destroy form”? How can we completely uproot the traditional forms of poetry and make it our own? |

Know: -structure of poetry
Do: -Analyze  |

Concepts
-Modernism -Modernist poets -Historical context of modernist poetry -evolution of modernism -successors of modernism   | Death and Despair Moral and Social Corruption Western Values Self-awareness Creativity

W.11–12.3a RL.11–12.4   | 20 days/ 4 weeks

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One Teach, One Drift
Team Teaching
Station Teaching
Parallel Teaching

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Engaging ways to help students with the writing of their speeches

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“Respeto: Nuestros Héroes” Respect: Our Heroes

ESQ: Who are the people in our lives that we respect and honor? How have they shaped us?

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Unit title: Express Yourself!

EQ: Why is it powerful to document our own experiences via the written word?

Students will analyze various pieces of creative writing & the narrative techniques utilized by author.

Students will produce a memoir-style chapter where style, purpose, & audience are considered.

Co-teaching: Parallel teaching, station teaching, one teach, one drift

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One Teach, one Drift
Station Teaching
Team Teaching/Parallel Teaching

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Who graduates and who dropouts of high school?

Why do some students see education after high school as possible/attainable

Why are some students not accepted into college?

Activity:

School-to-Prison Pipeline Lesson and Activity

Counselors come in and have a workshop about the requirements to culminate

Students will write a reflection and goals so they can culminate and ways they will achieve those goals.

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-personal artifact activity
-letter to future self
-about me slides
-soapstone activity
-who am I activity
-Community and cultural wealth gallery walk activity
-systems of power image categorization
-create a character

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Essential Questions: TBD
Enduring Understandings

Facism

Hitler

Musoline

Stalin

Prussian Revolution

Bloody Sunday

Starvation

Burning money to stay warm

Activities:
- TBD

Questions/ needs: This unit is in the making. Happy to receive any suggestions/ resources.

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How can we see resistance and power in music?

Does music need to feature resistance and power in every song?

Activity

Mixtape of My Life

Students are given a blank CD and art supplies and they create a collage and add pictures and phrases that best represent them

Students will write a reflection after

NEED: Where can we find old magazines and pics that students can use in their collage?

The Soundtrack of My Life

Students pick a song that represents them and pick a lyric to analyze

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Unit 3: The Good & Bad Society - Social Ills (under construction 🚧)

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Unit 3: The Good & Bad Society - Social Ills (under construction 🚧)

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EQs: How is slavery an extension of capitalism? How do we explain the racial wealth gap? How do we explain the gender wealth gap? How has capitalism created our climate crisis? Are there examples of more sustainable economies? How can we imagine an indigenous economy? What is the root cause of large social issues?

EUs:

racial capitalism

Black exploitation

Racial wealth gap

black wealth

black owned businesses

Climate change

Indigenous ideas around property

labor markets

Activities:
Students will choose an organization that has either created or worked to solve a major social issue and write a letter to that organization.

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Unit 4: Organizational Development, Movements, and Leadership (under construction 🚧) 

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Unit 4: Organizational Development, Movements, and Leadership (under construction 🚧) 

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EQs: How do organizations develop? What resources are necessary to create an organization? What is a leader? What is entrepreneurship? What does budgeting look like for organizations? What decisions do organizations make on a daily, monthly, annual basis?

EUs:

idk yet

Activities:
Research project into the structure of an organization of their choice including philosophy, interviewing, data collection, analysis, writing, presentation, hypothesis creation/testing, and note taking.

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8th Grade US History
Unit Title: Enslavement and Reparations
EQ: How can one use resistance to achieve freedom?
EU: The objective of this unit is not only to teach about the history of Enslavement but to consider the reparations that can be made in today's society

Assignments:

Vocab quiz

Socratic Circle dialogue

Poetry of resistance

Written task

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How has music shaped us? How can we use music to learn? “Sometimes music is the only medicine the heart and soul need.” “A veces la música es la única medicina que el corazón y alma necesita”

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Unit 5: Social Psychology [if time] (under construction 🔨)

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Unit 5: Social Psychology [if time] (under construction 🔨)

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EQs: Where do our personalities come from? How do people interact with groups? What makes for a healthy relationship?

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Essential Questions:

Are wars justified? What constitutes a just war?

What role did nationalism play in the events leading up to WWI? (How can nationalism lead to extremism?)

What is the importance of propaganda in times of war?

How does propaganda shift perspectives?

Are treaties the answer to stopping war? Do treaties help/hinder progress?

Enduring Understandings:

Great War becoming the first World War

World War I was categorized as total war.

Consequences of World War I for nations, ethnic groups, and people.

The development of the Russian Revolution and how it became popular.

End of WWI and consequences of the post-war agreement.

Impact of WWI agreements on the mapping of the Middle East.

Nationalism and its contributions to WWI

Role of propaganda

Human rights violations

Genocide

Negotiations and Treaties

Activities: TBD

Questions/Needs: Currently in the process of narrowing down the EQ and EU. Suggestions?

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What is Social Justice? And who benefits from Social Justice?

What are ways Social Justice benefits marginalized communities?

Activity

Social Justice Poster

Students will pick a social justice issue they are interested in and create a poster that clearly their stance

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Ethnic Studies: Racism and Jim Crow in the US

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Ethnic Studies: Racism and Jim Crow in the US

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What factors led to racism and discrimination in the United States?

How did Jim Crow laws prevent the advancement of full equality for African Americans after the Civil War?

Who benefits from discrimination?

Activity: Think-Pair-Share/Partner Document Analysis
NEED: What other activities can we do in regards to Jim Crow and modern Jim Crow?

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EQ:Howcanartbeusedasatoolfor resistance?

Analyze various mediums of art and their effects/influence: music, poetry/spoken-word, murals/street art, etc.

Students will create multiple art projects to convey a powerful message close to them.

Co-teaching: One Teach, One Drift, Team Teaching

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Unit 2:  Water & Land is Life

ESQ: How do we take into account the natural world as we learn? How do we embrace non-humans in our practice?

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Any ideas for speeches to use for the class? (9th Grade)

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Any ideas for speeches to use for the class? (9th Grade)

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Ethnic Studies: The Civil Rights Movement

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Ethnic Studies: The Civil Rights Movement

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What is a movement? What are the historical contributions of the Civil Rights Movement?

How has the Civil Rights Movement influenced present-day movements, such as Black Lives Matter and Ethnic Studies?

Activity

Annotate a Speech

Annotate Newspaper Headline/Front Page

Newspaper Front Page Assignment

Video:

Civil Rights: Kid Friendly Explainer

The Civil Rights Movement

Leaders:

Little Rock Nine

Rose Parks

Martin Luther King Jr

Malcolm X

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EQ:

Why would people justify, condone and perpetuate the exploitation of other people?

How are actions towards subjects framed? Why and is it true?

EU:

Ideological and Repressive

Language, ideologies and structures are a consequence of Imperialism

Conquest was justified by attaining resources.

Analysis of colonization.

Reasons behind industrialized nations’ adoption of imperial ventures.

Imperialism’s similarities and differences between colonies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Imperialism’s ties to race and religion.

Native people’s responses to colonization

White Man’s Burden

Standards of Beauty

Anthems/nationalism

Haitian Revolution

Family separation and immigration

Refugees

Main Activities:

Scramble for Africa

Doll test

2 Women (Allende)

Anzaldua-- To tame a wild tongue

* In the process of adding more*

Questions/Needs:
What types of activities and co-teaching will you do?: One teach one drift

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Essential Question:
How are the systems of race and capitalism historically connected? How are they still connected today?

Connect contemporary structures of policing and prisons to legacies of enslavement and racial segregation

Analyze policing, prisons, and incarceration within the contexts of racism, capitalism, and settler colonialism

Connect policing and the prison-industrial complex to contemporary U.S. foreign policy

Abolition movement

Activities

Movie: 13th

The New Jim Crow

Crack Epidemic-Zootopia

Culminating Project: Prison/Police Industrial Complex (ZINE)

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Essential Questions

What is feminism? What is misogyny? Why is there backlash towards it?

Enduring Understandings

Waves of Feminism in the US Intersectionality - How women of color experience the world differently

Activities

Pensamientos/ Journal: Women across the world, Gender Roles, & Leaders

Mother’s Day Assignment Portrait Activity

Co-teaching Method

One Teach, One Drift

Co-teaching

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Unit title: When We Fight, We Win!

EQ: How can we create and sustain real and lasting change in our communities?

Students will analyze various forms of activism: student/youth activism, mutual aid, the Black Panther Party’s community programs, modes of persuasion and speech making, etc.

Pod-mapping mutual aid assignment.

Research Project on community issue important to them.

Co-teaching: One Teach, One Drift; Station Teaching

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EQs: How does this make sense?
Why is the time right now to act?

EU: Public speaking is a privilege and should be ethical/logical. Language is political; Language is power.

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Essential Question:

How have Latinos in the United States Resisted?

Activities

Forms of Resistance worksheet + skit

Resistance Strategies lesson + worksheet

Pensamientos/ Journals: Resistance, Master Narratives, Counter Narrative, Harvest of Empire, Migration

Class Divide Activity

Unsung Heroes Activity

Push & Pull Activity

Final Artistic Assessment

CoTeaching Type

One teach, One drift

Alternative Teaching

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EQ: How does war affect us as Americans from different backgrounds?

Students will learn about morals and dilemmas, use supporting evidence, analyze text, and research.

Students will learn new vocabulary/terms: conflict, ethics, debate, evidence, morals etc.

Maint text/s: Excerpts from Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, Displacement by Kiku Hughes

Co-teaching: Parallel teaching, One Teach, One Drift

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What were the tactics used to limit voting rights? Do we still see those tactics used today?

How did the Black Codes and Jim Crow oppress and discriminate against newly freed African Americans?

What are the 13, 14, and 15th Amendments? Why are they necessary?

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Unit 1: “Our Existence is Resistance” (Somos Orugas- We are caterpillars) - Community Week

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Unit 1: “Our Existence is Resistance” (Somos Orugas- We are caterpillars) - Community Week

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ESQ: How do we build community? How are our journey’s that led us to this ELD class important as we move forward in the practice of English?

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Why did the Civil War happen?

What was the goal of the Civil War for both the North and South?

What did the Civil War represent for enslaved and freed Africans during and after?

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What role does race play in defining, classifying and diagnosing psychological disorders?

How does racial or social class shape access to psychological and psychiatric services?

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EQs: What do I have to offer the world? Why should you listen to me?

EU: We have much to offer our communities.

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Were “all men created equal?” What were the limitations of the Declaration of Independence?

What are the origins of slavery?

How were enslaved Africans treated?

How important was slavery to the U.S. economy?

What were strategies used to maintain slavery?

Were there differences in the lives of free blacks in the North and South?

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Why do people behave the way they do?

What role does society and culture play in the shaping of an individual's personality?

How accurate are personality tests?

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How does society and culture shape individual and collective memories?

How reliable are our memories?

Why do people remember the same events in different ways?

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Essential Questions
What does Oppression look like in my life? Am I Oppressed? Why does oppression occur?

3 I’s of Oppression

Activities

Pensamientos/Journals: Song analysis, oppression reflection, the “-isms”, White People film review

Matrix of Oppression worksheet

Kendrick Lamar Song analysis

Transformational Resistance worksheet

6 Reasons Men Can Literally Never Be Victims Of Sexism article

Co-Teaching Method

One teach, One drift

Parallel Teaching

Station Teaching

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What is Manifest Destiny and how did it affect Native Americans’ land?

What was the Trail of Tears? Why were Native Tribes forced out of their land?

How did the Mexican-American war influence the treatment of Mexicans in the US?

How did the annexation of California create tension in the US?

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What does it mean to be conscious?

How can consciousness be used as a tool for transformation?

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EQ: How can feelings turn into messages?
EU: Using emotions in speech can have varying impacts,
some powerful, some dangerous.

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Unit 1: Colonization
Essential Questions

How has colonization impacted people?

How have people resisted colonization?

How did the colonizers’ history shape their actions? Why is it important to learn about what Columbus did?

Enduring Understanding
Activities

Pensamientos Journals: Colonization Image, Roots, & Killing Cultures

Columbian Exchange graphic organizer

Indigenous People of Latin America Presentations

7 Pillars of Colonialism Final

Co-Teaching Method
One Teach, One Drift and Co-teaching

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How does one’s culture influence the way they sense and perceive the world?

How does virtual reality affect sensation and perception? Are we living in a virtual simulation?

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How does racism affect childhood learning and development?

Why is it important to understand multiple intelligence and various learning styles in early childhood development?

How do the different forms of conditionings impact how we learn?

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What role did people of color play in the shaping of psychology as a science? What are the consequences of failing to include or minimizing their voices?

Why are there conflicting notions about who the “father of psychology” is?

What are the research and methods employed in conducting psychological research and are they biased or relevant across different groups of people?

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Unit title: The American Dream

EQ: What does the “American Dream” mean to you?

Students will learn to analyze texts from American writers and determine main ideas, themes, point of views, etc. Students will learn new vocabulary/terms: capitalism, imperialism, privilege, symbolism, tone, etc.

Main text/s: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes, excerpts from other poems, novels and articles.

Co-teaching: Parallel teaching; One Teach, One Drift

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US History: Political Systems + Foreign Policy

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US History: Political Systems + Foreign Policy

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How are laws made in the United States? Who do these laws protect?

How can political parties segregate or unite marginalized communities?

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Unit 7: Modern History - Where are we going? (Post 9/11)

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Unit 7: Modern History - Where are we going? (Post 9/11)

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What progress has the US made in living up to its founding ideals in 1776? In what ways is it still failing?

How has the internet and technology increased the spread of hate, misinformation and cynicism in US society? In what ways does it influence domestic and foreign relations? What can be done to reverse it?

How do you feel about the story of the US up to now? What is going to be your role in shaping the future?

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Unit 6: Fear, Manipulation, and Resilience (Mid70s - 1990s)

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Unit 6: Fear, Manipulation, and Resilience (Mid70s - 1990s)

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What anxieties and fears did US leaders play on to advance their foreign and domestic interests? What strategies did they use and who was harmed in the process?

How did the actions of the US government overseas contradict its own ideals of liberty, freedom and democracy?

What were the goals of resistance movements that arose in response to government policies and practices that disproportionately impacted low-income ethnic minority communities?

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What were the primary principles and goals that united the various movements that made up the larger Civil Rights Movement?

What role did women play in these movements, and what does an analysis of their treatment reveal about patriarchal dynamics in the US?

How does white, conservative, backlash reveal itself during the Civil Rights era, and how does it compare to conversations around

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What ideologies were in conflict during the second world war, and in what ways were they or weren’t they rooted in racism and misogyny?

What role did the second world war play in the US’s rise as a global superpower? How did this shift the global balance of power?

What role did soldiers and people of color play throughout the first world war and why is it important that they are highlighted?

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Unit 3: 1920s - 1930s ~ From Prosperity to Poverty

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Unit 3: 1920s - 1930s ~ From Prosperity to Poverty

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Was the wealth generated during the Roaring 20s distributed equally throughout society? Who were the primary beneficiaries and why?

What social movements arose from the rise in poverty during The Great Depression and in what ways did they either include or neglect indigenous groups and people of color?

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What were some irreversible consequences of the horrific realities experienced during the first world war and how did they forever change the world?

How does understanding the US’s motivations for joining the first world war shine light on the country’s priorities?

What role did soldiers and people of color play throughout the first world war and why is it important that they are highlighted?

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Unit 1: Rise of the U.S. on the World Stage (Imperialism)

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Unit 1: Rise of the U.S. on the World Stage (Imperialism)

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What is the role or responsibility of a world superpower?

Is displacement, violence and exploitation the only way for a superpower to achieve its goals?

Was American expansion overseas justified? Does intervention help or hurt the countries involved?

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EQ: Where am I from? Where am I going?
EU: Our Identities and histories are valuable