Unit 3 Addressing Equity and Social Issues

Unit 3 includes:

Sexual Harassment

Gender

LGBTQ

Disabilities

Media - Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" (4 hour video or optional powerpoint, look for current cases that apply Chomsky)

Land Acknowledgements

See Teacher Lesson Plans from OSSTF "Creating Spaces" (2010) and TDSB's "Tools for Equity" (2006)

    - order from Tools for Equity: A Resource for Best Practices (Grades 7–12) (© 2006) (coiled) This is a compilation of 20 sets of teaching/learning strategies for Grades 7–12 classrooms that assist teachers, students, schools, and community partners to examine the five areas of the TDSB Commitments to Equity Policy Implementation: ethnocultural, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic equity, and equity for persons with disabilities. ($25 from TDSB)

Pink Shirt Day Feb 27

Wanda Sykes "That's so gay" (youtube)

LGBTQ2 Toolkit (Toronto 2013)

May 2017 News on "Gendering" and "Mis-Gendering"

Gender Neutral Option on Ontario Birth Certificates

Blue Jay Player Makes Homophobic Slur and gets Suspended

Bill C-16 on Using Gender Neutral Pronouns and Human Rights

2018:

Why the Trump Administration Won't Ask About LGBT Americans on the 2020 Census

What is Otherness?

on people-first vs identity-first language

Land Acknowledgements - Tkaranto

Saying ‘Pause’ Isn’t a Joke, It’s Gay-Bashing, March 2021