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Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar
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- English & Language Arts
- Culture & Identity
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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.
Why Identity Matters
Students reflect on how aspects of their identities are more visible or felt in certain situations and read an informational text to help them consider the interplay between individual identity and social identity.
Choose a Coming-of-Age Text
Apply Facing History’s key principles of text selection to your own context as you customize a unit for your students.
Begin with the End in Mind
Identify the goals, learning objectives, and student learning outcomes for your coming-of-age literature unit.
Craft the Essential Question
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.
Design the Summative Assessment
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.
Teach with Facing History Journal Prompts
Learn creative ways to incorporate journaling into your units and lesson plans and explore our bank of Facing History journal prompts.
Start With Yourself
Reflect on your identity as an educator and your ideas about teaching and learning, as well as your school context and the students in your classroom.
Coming-of-Age Unit Planning Toolkit
This toolkit provides the framework and classroom resources to help you design a coming-of-age literature unit for middle or high school students using a book of your choosing.
Activities for the First Days of School
These first-week-of-school activities create welcoming learning environments that prioritize care, relationships, and community.
Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning
These back-to-school activities and teacher resources will help you lay a foundation for a reflective and caring community at the start of the school year.
Using the strategies from Facing History is almost like an awakening.
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