Major themes or topics: Identity, diversity, portraits

Big Question: What is identity? How do portraits reveal aspects of people’s identities?

Virtual Destination(s): National Portrait Gallery

Session 1: Students explore what identity is, explore their own identities, and share parts of their identity with one another.

Session 2: Students choose a particular portrait to examine and understand how portraits include aspects of identity before creating their own self portrait using parts of their identity.

Academic Standards Referenced:

Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards:

Identity 1 ID.3-5.1 I know and like who I am and can talk about my family and myself and describe our various group identities.

Identity 3 ID.3-5.3 I know that all my group identities are part of who I am, but none of them fully describes me and this is true for other people too.

Identity 4 ID.3-5.4 I can feel good about my identity without making someone else feel badly about who they are.

Diversity 6 DI.3-5.6 I like knowing people who are like me and different from me, and I treat each person with respect.