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Building Perspective: Understanding History through Fiction

January 24, 2020 – 1:19 pm

Shannon McFarland, Language Arts, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

Synopsis

Tags Author’s Purpose, central idea, Historical Fiction, Holocaust Literature, Informational Texts, Literature, Persuasion | Permalink | Comments Off

The Civil Rights Movement: Young Participants, Martyrs and Volunteers

January 24, 2020 – 1:14 pm

Pia Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags acquit, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, double jeopardy, Integration, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Norman Rockwell, Segregation, Separate but Equal, sit-in, Voting Rights Act | Permalink | Comments Off

Memoirs of Childhood: How Children Experience War

January 24, 2020 – 1:12 pm

Luke Rizzoli, English, West Charlotte High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Analysis, Children and Conflict, perspective, Vietnam War, World War One, World War Two | Permalink | Comments Off

The U.S. Civil War through the Eyes of Children

January 24, 2020 – 1:10 pm

Jonathan Wall, History, Rocky River High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags abolitionist, border state, casualty, compromise, confederation, popular sovereignty, secession, states’ rights | Permalink | Comments Off

Children of the American Civil War: The Civil War and its’ Aftermath. How America’s Youth Responded to Sectionalism

January 24, 2020 – 1:02 pm

Jessica Hon, Social Studies, Piedmont Open IB Middle

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Antebellum, Confederacy, diplomacy, Emancipate, Infantry, Preserve., Regiment, Secede, Sectionalism, Siege, Sovereignty, Union | Permalink | Comments Off

Killer Kids: What Makes Children Kill and How Do We Handle It?

January 24, 2020 – 12:58 pm

Jackie Smith, Science, W.A. Hough High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags adult, amygdala, children, hippocampus, juvenile, killer, life without parole, murder, psychopath, sociopath, youth, youth violence | Permalink | Comments Off

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

January 24, 2020 – 12:57 pm

Cassandra Alexander, Social Studies, James Martin Middle

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Brown vs Board of Education, busing, desegregation, discrimination, disenfranchised, Equality, fourteenth amendment, Jim Crow, oppression, Plessy vs Ferguson, Social Injustice | Permalink | Comments Off

Running For Our Lives: The Stories Of Children Who Escaped War And Conflict

January 24, 2020 – 12:54 pm

Audrey Dorante, History, East Mecklenburg High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags asylum, English Language Learners, Immigration, migration, refugee | Permalink | Comments Off

Art and Identity: Communities, Neighborhoods and Self

January 24, 2020 – 12:51 pm

Natalie Jones, Visual Art, West Charlotte High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Art, collage, communication, community, discovery, fingerprint, identity, Journal, mixed media, neighborhood, suitcase, Visual, Visual Art | Permalink | Comments Off

I Prefer Living in Color – Opening Windows to the Beauty of Varied Identities

January 24, 2020 – 12:47 pm

Lecia Shockley, 1st Grade, Selwyn Elementary

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags acceptance, anti-bias, Appreciate, beliefs, bigotry, celebrate, consider, cross-cultural, cultural competence, curiosity, customs, differences, discrimination, diversity, dominant culture, Ethnicity, evaluative practice, global learner, inclusive, intolerance, minority, multi-ethnic, multicultural, multiracial, Narratives, opportunity, Other, Personalized Learning Learner Profile traits, power, Prejudice, Racism, society, stereotype, tradition, understanding, value, white privilege | Permalink | Comments Off

Celebrating and Exploring Diversity and Community through Multicultural Literature with integrated Arts: Our “Maybe Something Beautiful”

January 24, 2020 – 12:38 pm

Julie Soto-Pendleton, 2nd Grade, University Park Creative Arts

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags achievable, beautiful, Civil Rights, community, Culture, diversity, equal rights, Ethnicity, family, friends, goals, hope, impossible, invisible, multicultural, neighborhood, Schools, segregated, separate, Tolerance, Traditions, triumph, united, visible, vision | Permalink | Comments Off

Our Communities and Its Impact on Our Learning

January 24, 2020 – 12:36 pm

Juanita Razor, Language Arts, Wilson Middle

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Choice, communication, community, conflict, consequence, Culture, identity, narrative, perspective, Prejudice, social bias | Permalink | Comments Off

It’s Not Just Black and White, a Literacy Celebration

January 24, 2020 – 12:24 pm

Jacci Fizet, Kindergarten, Renaissance West STEAM Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Emergent Literacy Skills, literacy, Math, Writing | Permalink | Comments Off

Children in City Spaces: Exploring Charlotte through the Eyes of Creative Writers

January 24, 2020 – 12:21 pm

Gia Wright, English, Rocky River High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Author’s Perspective, Characterization, Realistic Fiction | Permalink | Comments Off

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