Lesson
The Complexity of Identity
Students explore the relationship between the individual and society by creating identity charts for a contemporary novelist, a children's book character, and themselves.
Duration
One 50-min class periodSubject
- Civics & Citizenship
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Language
English — USPublished
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About This Lesson
This lesson uses resources from Chapter 1 of Holocaust and Human Behavior to prompt students to explore how the ways they think about themselves and others are influenced by society. Students will use the Identity Charts teaching strategy to analyze the roles that both the individual and society play in the complex identities of two individuals described in the chapter, and then they will use the same strategy to reflect on their own identities. These activities serve as both effective classroom community-building exercises at the beginning of a Facing History unit and a way to introduce ideas about human behavior and decision making that will serve as a foundation for examining the historical case study later in the unit.
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