Human Migration: Why Words Matter

TOPIC:

  • History of Human Migration

OBJECTIVES:

  • Recognize and understand the power of language: that words can be used to hurt and that they have a responsibility to choose words that support and promote human dignity.
  • Students will be able to employ respectful vocabulary to discuss circumstances surrounding immigration, displacement, and human migration, and do so with empathy, compassion, and which avoids stereotyping.
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INTRODUCTION:

Prepare students to use people-first language: to understand what that means and why it’s important, we are going to practice it. People-first language recognizes that words carry power and impact and we use it to describe people using identifiers that humanizes them rather than reduces them.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

  1. How do we help students to talk about difficult and sensitive topics in class without being rude or disrespectful of individuals or groups?

KIT INCLUDES:

Lesson plan created in partnership with 1882 Foundation

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