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Materials for From Reflection to Action

Access all the teaching strategies and additional resources referenced throughout the guide From Reflection to Action: A Choosing to Participate Toolkit.

Published: January 28, 2020

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Language

English — US

Subject

Civics & Citizenship
History
Social Studies

Grade

6–12

Democracy & Civic Engagement

Overview

This page is designed for educators using From Reflection to Action: A Choosing to Participate Toolkit. It contains all of the digital resources referenced throughout the book.

This collection contains the digital resources used in From Reflection to Action: A Choosing to Participate Toolkit, which includes:

9 teaching strategies
Additional recommended resources

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Teaching Strategy

Teach students to carefully read material by having them underline key words, write margin notes, and summarize main ideas.

Teaching Strategy

Students have a written conversation with peers and use silence as a tool to explore a topic in depth.

Group of students writing on large piece of chart paper.

Teaching Strategy

Help students approach challenging texts by breaking down content into manageable pieces.

Teaching Strategy

This kinesthetic discussion activity invites students to be active listeners and speakers and to interact with a wide range of classmates.

Teaching Strategy

Have students move around the classroom to explore a range of documents, images, or student work.

Students adding post-it notes to a white board.

Teaching Strategy

Educators will create a practice of student journaling to help their students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.

Teaching Strategy

Educators will structure a discussion that uses journaling and group work to strengthen students’ listening skills.

Three students sitting in a classroom with one of the students talking.

Teaching Strategy

This discussion strategy helps students practice being both active speakers and active listeners in a group conversation.

Four students sitting at a table with one student talking and gesturing.

Teaching Strategy

Facilitate thoughtful group discussions by having students first share their ideas in writing and with a partner.

Unit

This unit uses the 10 Questions Framework to explore two examples of youth activism: the 1963 Chicago schools boycott and the present-day movement against gun violence launched by Parkland students.

Facing History and Ourselves Bullying Summit September 29th 2012 in Los Angeles CA

Lesson

Students use the “levers of power” framework to identify ways they can bring about positive change in their communities.

Agosin Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love Pg. 76

Mini-Lesson

Use this mini-lesson to explore the rich history of youth activism from the 1960s to present day.

Guide

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach an 18-week curriculum that explores questions of identity, family legacy, group membership and choices.

Handout

Design your Choosing to Participate civic action project using this planning tool.

Video

San Francisco Bay Area teens explore ways technology can be used for social justice and community engagement at Facing History’s first ever Civic Hackathon hosted by Brocade.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson on the Capitol insurrection invites students to reflect on how seemingly small choices made by individuals can contribute to larger acts of injustice and violence.

Lesson

Use this lesson to help your students understand more about the origins of race as a socially constructed concept and racism as a force that shapes society.

Lesson

Use this lesson when your students are engaging with a text that contains racist and dehumanising language.

Uniformed high school students write at their desks.

Lesson

Use this lesson to help your students explore the impact of racism in the UK and what can be done to challenge it.

Uniformed school students complete assignments at their desks.

Assessment

Students participate in a people's assembly centered on the question, how might we challenge all types of racism in the UK so that everyone can thrive?

Unit

This unit is designed to help teachers in the UK have conversations about race with their students in a safe, sensitive, and constructive way.

Collection

Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

Students working in groups in a classroom

Collection

This collection features all the Facing History resources recommended in the New York Department of Education’s Civics for All curriculum.

Four students at their desks, working in a group.

Collection

Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

Four students sit in a circle in conversation. The student in the center speaks with their hands raised.

Lesson

Students consider how the debate around the Wagner-Rogers Bill reflected competing ideas in the United States about national identity, priorities, and values.

A group of children in 1930s era clothing stare and point at the Statue of Liberty.

Lesson

Students analyze Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech and consider how they can respond to King's challenge to create a more just world.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at a microphone giving a speech to a crowd.

Lesson

Students learn about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and reflect on the relationship between identity, dignity, and community membership.

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. marching arm in arm with a crowd of men participating in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike.

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Teaching Strategies

Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources

Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation

Chunking

Concentric Circles

Gallery Walk

Journals in a Facing History Classroom

Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn

Save the Last Word for Me

Think, Pair, Share

Additional Resources

10 Questions for Young Changemakers

Choosing to Participate

Youth Taking Charge! Placing Student Activism in Historical Context

Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline

Action Project Planning Tool

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Introducing the Concept of Race

Addressing Racist and Dehumanising Language

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Discussing Race and Racism in the Classroom

Resources for Civic Education in Massachusetts

Resources for Civic Education in New York

Resources for Civic Education in California

The Child Refugee Debate

Dr. King's Legacy and Choosing to Participate

Memphis in 1968: The Sanitation Workers' Strike

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Exploring ELA Text Selection with Julia Torres

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