Spatial Identities: Finding Joy in Community
Identity and Self: Black/African-American
3-Hour and 20-Minute Lesson Segment
Introduction to Ethnic Studies (9th Grade)
Constructed by Rob Holland
Community Wealth, Resistance, Oppression
Note: This lesson was drafted with thoughtful consideration of these “curriculum-thinking” prompts.
About the Lesson & Learning Objectives
In this lesson, students will consider the value of community and how community can bring joy. Students will first work to define their communities. They will then read an excerpt from a local oral history and discuss how community can create joy. This will transition to a lesson on joy as an act of resistance. Students should leave this lesson with a sense of community identity and pride.
[NOTE: This lesson could be split in two and done during separate points of the year. First, you could just do the sections on what community means/is (including the Osman excerpt). You could then return to the Osman excerpt later in the year to focus more on joy as an act of resistance.]
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Finding Joy in Community Graphic Organizer
Gallery Walk Graphic Organizer
Using Joy to Better Community Prompt & Paragraph
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Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, expressing their own ideas persuasively and building on others’.
Interpret multiple visual representations to determine spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.
Evaluate information from multiple sources and be able to provide relevant evidence to support a claim or purpose.
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Berkeley YPAR Hub Lesson Plans, especially this lesson plan
Maryan Osman’s Oral History (from UCSD Race and Oral History Project)
Black Joy: Resistance, Resilience, and Reclamation (Smithsonian Institute)
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Community
Injustice
Resilience
Pride & Ownership
Collective Spirit
Black Joy
Discrimination
Investment
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What does community mean to you?
Can community joy be an active form of resistance in the face of oppression?
Tell us your story.
We’d love to hear from you.
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Curriculum-Thinking
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Lesson Plans
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Student Facing Resources