Lies My Teacher Told Me Lesson Plan

Discussion: New Conversations About Race and American History

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will be able to leverage their own historical and textual knowledge to critically review contemporary debates in American society.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.5 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.6

Structure:

For this activity, students should organize themselves into groups of 2-3 people, and be given this article as a handout: ...