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Climat Scolaire

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Published: August 29, 2019

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Language

English — US

Grade

6–12

Culture & Identity

Overview

1 stratégies pédagogique
2 textes
4 vidéos

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Assessment

Create a culminating experience for your students that helps them draw new connections between the concepts and ideas presented in this text set, themselves, and the world today.

Activity

Students get an opportunity to give feedback about the class and communicate their needs and worries.

A person holds a compass in their hand with the ocean in the background.

Activity

Students share how they are feeling, what their needs are, and what goals they’d like to set in an exit card.

A person holds a glass door open with a backpack over one shoulder.

Collection

Incorporate these community-building routines into your lessons to set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect with one another, and encourage goal setting.

Two students in conversation while looking down at a laptop computer.

Lesson

Students explore the costs and benefits of sharing aspects of their identities, discuss an informational text about “narrative identity,” and apply these concepts to their own lives in an original poem.

Activity

Students explore the relationship between our names, identities, and the societies in which we live.

A pile of "Hello my name is" nametags and sharpie markers sit on top of a desk.

Activity

Students identify an object that holds special meaning and learn about each other by sharing the stories of these special items.

A person holding a rectangular white photo frame near a body of water.

Activity

Students analyze a poem in order to determine the qualities of a classroom community where members are seen, valued, and heard.

Two students look at each other in conversation. One student is also taking notes.

Section

Apply Facing History’s key principles of text selection to your own context as you customize a unit for your students.

Section

Identify the goals, learning objectives, and student learning outcomes for your coming-of-age literature unit.

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Section

Explore our bank of essential questions for a coming-of-age literature unit and engage with activities in the Educator Workbook to align your essential questions with your learning outcomes and passages from the text.

Section

Plan your summative assessment based on a “This I Believe” personal narrative or an assessment of your choice using Facing History’s strategies for prewriting, outlining, and revision.

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Identity and Storytelling Assessment Ideas

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What’s In a Name?

Frame a Special Item

Envisioning Our Classroom Space

Choose a Coming-of-Age Text

Begin with the End in Mind

Craft the Essential Question

Design the Summative Assessment

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