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Resistance
Honoring the Natural Environment as Home
Students explore nature and the environment as parts of home, comparing a poem by Melania Luisa Marte to a chapter of Braiding Sweetgrass.
Staging the Compelling Question: Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
Students are introduced to the compelling question for the inquiry.
Supporting Question 1: Historical Context for Japanese American Incarceration
Students explore the supporting question “What conditions made the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II possible?”
Supporting Question 2: Japanese American Life in Incarceration Camps
Students explore the supporting question “What was life like for Japanese Americans during incarceration?”
Supporting Question 3: Japanese American Resistance during WWII
Students explore the supporting question “How did Japanese Americans resist their incarceration and assert their rights during World War II?”
Supporting Question 4: Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration
Students explore the supporting question "How has the legacy of World War II Japanese American incarceration inspired activism among Japanese Americans today?"
Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
Students culminate their arc of inquiry into the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII by completing a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action.
Motivations for the Delano Grape Strike: Supporting Question 2
This lesson explores the question, “What motivated farm workers in Delano, CA, to go on strike in 1965?"
Building and Sustaining Unity in the Farm Workers Movement: Supporting Question 3
This lesson explores the question, “What strategies did farm workers use to build and sustain unity during the Delano grape strike?”
Building Support for the Farm Workers Movement: Supporting Question 4
This lesson explores the question, “How did the farm workers movement gain popular support from people across the country in the 1960s?”
Summative Assessment & Taking Informed Action
This lesson culminates the Sowing Change inquiry with a C3-aligned Summative Performance Task and Taking Informed Action project.
