ObjectivesandStandards

Students will gain awareness that everyone has experienced prejudice and discrimination and that it comes in a variety of forms (not just racial). Students will explore how they first became conscious of prejudice and discrimination and the feelings associated with this consciousness. Students will learn to express their thoughts and opinions on sensitive subjects in appropriate manners. Students will learn the benefits of embracing different cultures diversities and all they have to offer. Students will take action to help others further understand different cultures and why it is important to embrace them. Students will learn about their own cultural diversities. __**State Standards**__ **CE 1.1.2 ** Know and use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate, focus, and organize ideas (e.g., free writing, clustering/mapping, talking with others, brainstorming, outlining, developing graphic organizers, taking notes, summarizing, paraphrasing). **CE 1.2.2 ** Write, speak, and visually represent to develop self-awareness and insight (e.g., diary, journal writing, portfolio self-assessment). **CE 1.3.7 **Participate collaboratively and productively in groups (e.g., response groups, work teams, discussion groups, and committees)—fulfilling roles and responsibilities, posing relevant questions, giving and following instructions, acknowledging and building on ideas and contributions of others to answer questions or to solve problems, and offering dissent courteously. **CE 1.5.1 **Use writing, speaking, and visual expression to develop powerful, creative and critical messages **CE 2.1.11 **Demonstrate appropriate social skills of audience, group discussion, or work team behavior by listening attentively and with civility to the ideas of others, gaining the floor in respectful ways, posing appropriate questions, and tolerating ambiguity and lack of consensus. **CE 2.3.7 **Participate as an active member of a reading, listening, and viewing community, collaboratively selecting materials to read or events to view and enjoy (e.g., book talks, literature circles, film clubs). **CE 3.2.4 **Respond by participating actively and appropriately in small and large group discussions about literature (e.g., posing questions, listening to others, contributing ideas, reflecting on and revising initial responses). **CE 3.2.5 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Respond to literature in a variety of ways (e.g., dramatic interpretation, reader’s theatre, literature circles, illustration, writing in a character’s voice, engaging in social action, writing an analytic essay) providing examples of how texts affect their lives, connect them with the contemporary world, and communicate across time. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">CE 4.1.3 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Use a range of linguistic applications and styles for accomplishing different rhetorical purposes (e.g., persuading others to change opinions, conducting business transactions, speaking in a public forum, discussing issues informally with peers). **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">CE 4.2.4 **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Understand the appropriate uses and implications of casual or informal versus professional language; understand, as well, the implications of language designed to control others and the detrimental effects of its use on targeted individuals or groups (e.g., propaganda, homophobic language, and racial, ethnic, or gender epithets).
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