Identity Unit Lessons
Lesson Title 1: Understanding personal identity and social identity
Learning Objective 1: Students will be able to create a multi-media identity map that includes at least 3 personal identities and 3 social identities and provide a written or oral explanation for the importance of 3 specific identities with at least 2 supporting details for each. (Synthesis, Visual-Spatial)
Lesson Title 2: analyzing tone’s impact on an argument
Learning Objective 2: Students will be able to evaluate how Cain’s tone shifts throughout the text by color-coding at least 4 instances of figurative language and writing a 3-sentence justification for how each instance reveals her ultimate purpose,(evaluation, visual-spatial)
Lesson Title 3: determining an author's attitude toward introversion or extroversion
Learning Objective 3:I can synthesize the conflict between a speaker’s public and private identity by categorizing 4 pieces of figurative language on a T-Chart and constructing a 'Dual-Perspective' visual that justifies how the speaker’s private self contradicts their public persona. (Synthesis ,Visual-Spatial)
Activity Description: Students will choose their own identity map template on canva to customize with their 3 personal identities, and 3 social identities. After they are finished designing their online identity map they will either write or orally recite their explanation for the importance of 3 parts of their identities with their supporting details.
Activity Description: Students will watch the Susan Cain ted talk about the power of introverts together as a class. After watching students will complete a think, pair, share activity about what they learned from the video and if their opinions on introverts and extroverts changed. From their students will begin engaging with the text and noting the tone shift.
Activity Description: Students will read through the article and pick a poem that they want to use to complete the activity of creating the dual perspective visual. This online resource is great for allowing student choice in the lesson. Students can find a poem that they relate to or feel drawn to and use technology to help them find it.