In this lesson, students reflect, through autobiographical writing, on events in their lives that they feel most shaped their personal identities. In this lesson, students assess the advantages and disadvantages of affirmative action in employment, university admissions, government contracts and the military.
Students then support or refute affirmative action in persuasive essays.
In this lesson, students analyze and graph the results of a nationwide New York Times poll about race in the United States. Students then poll people in their community regarding their views and experiences, and compare and contrast local and national poll data in the form of graphs and a written news article. In this lesson, students explore race issues that exist in the police force and in police actions through sharing opinions and researching and presenting related statistical and historical information. Students then develop and present speeches, imagining that they are youth representatives presenting speeches at a congressional hearing on police conduct. In this lesson, students explore how the news media relays information about race in the United States by creating collages from newspapers and magazines and by sharing their reflections about the responsibilities of the news media in covering race-related topics.