Ms Nilmalgoda Grade 7 Social Studies Unit 1 Lesson 3 What words or labels would you use to describe the following people Justin Trudeau Canadian Prime Minister Taylor Swift SingerSongwriter ID: 595961
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How Do Others Define You?
Ms. Nilmalgoda
Grade 7 Social
Studies
Unit 1, Lesson
3Slide2
What words or labels would you use to describe the following people
…
?Slide3
Justin Trudeau
Canadian Prime MinisterSlide4
Taylor Swift
Singer/SongwriterSlide5
Sidney Crosby
Hockey PlayerSlide6
Malala
Yousafzai
Children’s/Women’s Rights ActivistSlide7
Usain Bolt
Athlete and Olympic ChampionSlide8
You have already thought about how you would describe yourself (ex. identity chart, I AM poem, etc.)
Now think (IN YOUR HEAD!)
…
what words might others use to describe you?
Are there any that you wouldn’t choose for yourself?
Can our identity be determined by other people? Slide9
We’re going to listen to a story
…
The Bear That Wasn’t
By Frank
Tashlin
https
://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-human-behavior/bear-wasn-
t
Slide10
Discussion
What
words does the bear use to describe himself
?
What
words did others use to describe him
?
How
does the identity of the
bear change over
time
?
What
point do you think Frank
Tashlin
, the author, is trying to make in
his
story
?
What
do you think has
more influence on
identity—the labels we give ourselves or the labels others give us
?Slide11
Reflection Worksheet
Please complete the reflection worksheet based on your discussion of
The Bear That Wasn’t
.
Once completed, put them in your reflection journals and leave them in our classroom!Slide12
Time for more reading …
Farewell to
Manzanar
Excerpt by
Jeanne
Wakatsuki
Houston
In her book
Farewell to
Manzanar
, Jeanne
Wakatsuki
Houston tells the story of what it was like to be a Japanese American in California during the 1940s. Jeanne was born in California in 1934, the youngest child of parents who had immigrated to the United States from Japan. In 1945, she started sixth grade in a new school. Slide13
“
That afternoon, during a reading lesson, [the teacher] finally asked me if I’d care to try a page out loud. I had not yet opened my mouth, except to smile. When I stood up, everyone turned to watch. Any kid entering a new class wants, first of all, to be liked. This was uppermost in my mind. I smiled wider, then began to read. I made no mistakes. When I finished, a pretty blond girl in front of me said, quite
innocently
, “Gee, I didn’t know you could speak English.” She was
genuinely
amazed. I was stunned. How could this have even been in doubt
?” Slide14
Discussion
What
do the experiences of Jeanne and the bear have in common? How are they different
?
Identify
a time when you have been labeled by others. How did it feel? How did you respond
?
Identify
a time when you labeled someone else. Why did you do it
?
Why
do you think we are quick to place labels on each other?Slide15
Video: The Ancestry
DNA Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7FhU-
G1_Q