Choices in Little Rock Assessment 1

Activity

Develop Initial Connections to the Essential Question

Give students the opportunity to begin reflecting on the essential question and gathering their thoughts based on what they have learned in the unit so far. 

Using a modified version of the teaching strategy Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World, ask students to write three short paragraphs (a few sentences each) according to the following guidelines: 

• The first paragraph should make a connection between what they’ve learned so far about democracy, prejudice, and racism and their own experiences/observations. 
• The second paragraph should make a connection between what they’ve learned so far about democracy, prejudice, and racism and a book, movie, or other fictional account.
• The third paragraph should make a connection between what they’ve learned so far about democracy, prejudice, and racism and something happening in the world or current events they know about.