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Essential Questions
✦ How can I be proud of who I
am while celebrating others?
Driving Question
Project Overview
✦ How can I, as an agent of
Our daily news is soaked with images, stories, speeches, and
positive change, use an art
form to advocate for justice rhetoric about race, gender, religion, and class in America. This is a
within my community? monumental opportunity to utilize current events and issues in the
classroom to explore social justice and create a community based
Inspiration for our on love, understanding, and empathy. The rest of the year will be
work at HTEX devoted toward this endeavor in the hope that students will
✦ Chicano Park (Art and Murals) develop a strong sense of themselves, an appreciation for others,
an understanding of injustice in our world and those that have
✦ Mario Torrero (Muralist)
advocated for those wrongly treated, and create change through
✦ Amplifier.org (Visual Art) action.
✦ Centro Cultural De La Raza We want to create a community of caring students that can
(Art, Culture, Music) empathize with each other. Earlier this year we focused on who we
✦ World Beats Center (Music) are as learners, friends, peers, and citizens of our classroom and
school community. Students will broaden their understanding of
✦ Gill Sotu (Poetry)
themselves, their peers, and the cultural groups that they are a part
✦ Teaching Tolerance.org (Anti of and interact with on a daily basis. We will read, assess, and
Bias Framework) discuss stereotypes, injustices, and agents of change that helped
promote equity in our social, environmental, and our governing
✦ Our community of unique and
passionate parents, experts, systems. Together, we look to change the world by recognizing
students, and teachers. injustices and standing up for what is right. Stand with us.
✦ Students will observe the art of Chicano Park with ✦ I will work with my friends and family to make our
an expert and begin to create powerful symbols school and community fair for everyone, and we
that represent something they are passionate about will work hard and cooperate in order to achieve
standing up for. our goals. (AC.3-5.20)
✦ Students will begin both a poetry unit and delve
COMMON CORE LITERACY
deeper into lyric analysis.
✦ I will refer to details and examples in a text when
APRIL:
explaining what the text says explicitly (CCSS RI.
✦ Students will choose an injustice that they are 4.1)
passionate about changing and begin planning
their call to action. ✦ I will write opinion pieces on topics or texts,
supporting a point of view with reasons and
✦ Students will continue to analyze song lyrics and
begin cowriting their own with messages of justice. information (CCSS W.4.1)