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Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding
This unit explores the concepts of identity, analyzing various identity lenses such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and intersectionality. Students will deconstruct master and counter-narratives historically and within their local community. Culminating with an autoethnography, students will interact with other identity narratives while considering their own experiences.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
What impact does the master narrative have on the experiences of oppressed people?
How do internal and external factors contribute to the shaping of identity? (How do we see ourselves? How does the outside world see me?)
How do race, ethnicity, nationality, and culture shape identity?Â
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Final Project: Autoethnography
Final Project: Autoethnography
In this culminating project, students will craft an autoethnography in the genre of narrative writing. Students will respond to the following prompt: Write about an event or experience from a specific aspect of your identity: race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability, or class, and examine how this has shaped your life. Engaging in a two-week long writing process, students will produce multiple drafts, provide peer feedback, and revise, ending with a presentation to share and celebrate their story.
Resources: Weekly Slide Deck
Resources: Weekly Slide Deck
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