Systemic Racism "Starlight Tour" - Listening, Short Answer, & Conversation
- Google Slides™
Description
This no-prep conversation starts with students listening to the Criminal Podcast called "Starlight Tours" which details three recent decades of cases of systemic racism in Canada by Saskatoon Police against First Nations People.
This document contains:
1) Detailed teacher notes:
- Materials, timelines, tactics, Index with hyperlinks.
2) Support materials for when conversations are emotional.
3) Specific pre-listening, discussion questions, and extension questions with embedded mini-lessons such as root words, as needed.
4) Easy-marking rubric for class discussion.
5) Students reflect on their own conversation skills.
6) Detailed teacher answer key (so you don't have to listen to the podcast!)
7) Example record sheet
8) Templates to make a visual of the conversation (editable and non-editable for large and small classrooms). These templates support your marking and encourage student engagement. They are also helpful to show to parents to better understand their child's participation in the class.
All topics will engage and can yield an instant oral communication mark in a less threatening situation than a presentation or speech. Should you decide to host a weekly conversation supported by these materials, you will help students to value their own voice, improve their communication skills, and you will save yourself hours of time.
If this subject and format worked for you and your students, please consider:
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“Stay Black and Die": A Recent History of BLM
Vanessa Guillen Murdered- Latinx in the Military
Forgiveness & How it is Missing from the Justice System
Disability Rights- A History
Police and People with Mental Illness
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - MLK - Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights
Colin Powell- Reluctant Warrior
Mahsa Amini & Uprising in Iran
Future posts in the Conversation Series will each have a different issue, student discussion sheet, and answer key. But the support materials (such as the templates) will be similar.
This document may work for online conversations, but the Student Record Templates are designed to be 'in the round' and I have not hosted conversations that way, yet!
If you want more work similar to this topic and style, consider the High Interest and Skills Unit Series: