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Reimagining Home

Designed for grades 11-12, this text set includes lesson plans and multi-genre texts for a two-week unit exploring the essential question, "How can reimagining 'home' empower us to define how and where we belong in the world?”
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Holocaust Literature Introductory Lessons

This set of introductory lessons is designed to prepare ELA students in grades 7–12 to study a work of Holocaust literature.
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Crossing Borders: Building Empathy Through Storytelling

Designed for grades 9-10, this ELA unit and multi-genre text set explores why people migrate and how the migration journey shapes our sense of who we are.
Migrants walk towards the Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, in Edirne, Turkey, March 1, 2020.
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Three Good Things

Students practice gratitude by naming and recording three good things that have happened that day.
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Slow Down with The Slowdown

Students use poetry as a spark for reflection and discussion about what’s happening in their lives and the world.
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Take a Stand

Students practice debate and perspective taking by taking a stand on a controversial statement.
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Appreciation, Apology, Aha

Students reflect on the day by asking them to share an appreciation, an apology, and an “aha” moment.
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Closing Challenge

Students identify one personal or academic goal that they would like to commit to in the week ahead.
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Students reflect on the past year and generate ideas for the kind of learning community and learning experiences they are hoping for this year.
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Our Names and Our Place in the World

Students consider what parts of our identities we choose for ourselves and what parts are chosen for us, as well as the impact our names can have on our identities.
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Making Meaning of Community

Students explore the idea of “community” in order to identify its key aspects and deeper meaning.
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Community Is… Community Isn’t

Students explore the factors that make up a community.
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