Curriculum / ELA / Kindergarten / Unit 6: What is Justice? / Lesson 17
ELA
Unit 6
Kindergarten
Lesson 17 of 18
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Using what you learned in the unit, discuss the following Essential Questions.
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SL.K.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.K.3 — Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
SL.K.5 — Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
W.K.8 — With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
SL.K.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
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Lesson 18
Identify reasons to support the author’s point that all are welcome.
L.K.6 RI.K.7 RI.K.8 SL.K.1
Explain two reasons the author includes to support the idea that “Beneath the skin we all look alike. You and Me.”
L.K.6 RI.K.2 RI.K.7 RI.K.8 SL.K.1
Explain what the author means that children come in all colors of the earth.
Explain two reasons why the author says, “Each of us grows in our own way.”
Writing
Create an All About Me poster to highlight key aspects of identity.
L.K.1 L.K.2 W.K.2 W.K.5 W.K.8
Retell what happened in The Other Side.
L.K.6 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 SL.K.1
Explain how segregation impacts Joe and John Henry’s friendship.
Explain how life changed for Black people in the South after the civil rights movement.
Explain why Rosa Parks does not get up with the policeman asked her to.
L.K.6 RI.K.3 RI.K.7 RI.K.8 SL.K.1
Explain how the whole community made the Montgomery Bus Boycott a success.
Explain why Martin Luther King Jr. was important.
Explain how people came together during the March for Freedom.
RI.K.3 RI.K.7 RI.K.8 SL.K.1
Explain how Minnie and her sister showed courage.
Describe the dreams that Martin Luther King Jr. had.
RI.K.3 RI.K.7 RI.K.8 RI.K.9 RI.K.9 SL.K.1
Explain what it means to Be a King.
Writing – 2 days
Write about what you can do to Be a King.
Discussion
SL.K.1 SL.K.3 SL.K.5 W.K.8
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