Curriculum / ELA / Kindergarten / Unit 6: What is Justice? / Lesson 17

What is Justice?

Lesson 17

ELA

Unit 6

Kindergarten

Lesson 17 of 18

Lesson Overview

Objective

Discuss the unit essential questions.

Lesson Map

Lesson

Identify reasons to support the author’s point that all are welcome.

Materials

All Are Welcome

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain two reasons the author includes to support the idea that “Beneath the skin we all look alike. You and Me.”

Materials

Let’s Talk About Race

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.2RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain what the author means that children come in all colors of the earth.

Materials

All the Colors...

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain two reasons why the author says, “Each of us grows in our own way.”

Materials

Just Ask!

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Writing

Create an All About Me poster to highlight key aspects of identity.

Standards

L.K.1L.K.2W.K.2W.K.5W.K.8

Lesson

Retell what happened in The Other Side.

Materials

The Other Side

Standards

L.K.6RL.K.2RL.K.3SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain how segregation impacts Joe and John Henry’s friendship.

Materials

Freedom Summer

Standards

L.K.6RL.K.2RL.K.3SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain how life changed for Black people in the South after the civil rights movement.

Materials

This Is...

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain why Rosa Parks does not get up with the policeman asked her to.

Materials

Rosa pp. 1–14

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain how the whole community made the Montgomery Bus Boycott a success.

Materials

Rosa p. 15 — to end

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain why Martin Luther King Jr. was important.

Materials

Martin's...

Standards

L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain how people came together during the March for Freedom.

Materials

We March

Standards

RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain how Minnie and her sister showed courage.

Materials

A Sweet...

Standards

RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Describe the dreams that Martin Luther King Jr. had.

Materials

I Have...

Standards

RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8RI.K.9RI.K.9SL.K.1

Lesson

Explain what it means to Be a King.

Materials

Be a King

Standards

RI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1

Lesson

Writing

Write about what you can do to Be a King.

Standards

L.K.1L.K.2W.K.2W.K.5W.K.8

Lesson

Discussion

Discuss the unit essential questions.

Standards

SL.K.1SL.K.3SL.K.5W.K.8

Lesson

Assessment

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What is Justice?

Lesson Overview

Are You Sure?

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