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Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline
Recommended for 6th grade, this outline provides an instructional pathway for middle school educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring identity, family legacy, group membership and choices.
Subject
- History
- Social Studies
Language
English — USUpdated

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Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline
Date of Publication:
January 2018
This curriculum is recommended for 6th-grade educators. It sparks dialogue and challenges students to consider how they can work together to create the kind of community in their school that feels inclusive and inviting for all.
This curriculum is based on the following resources:
- Unit: Identity & Community
- Unit: My Part of the Story
- Novel: Wonder
- Memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming
This curriculum outline is part of the Developing Student Voice, Character, and Civic Agency collection (formerly titled the Memphis Exploratory collection).
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Facing History & Ourselves, “Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline”, last updated June 16, 2020.
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