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Take Action! Lesson Plans for the Multicultural Classroom
Lori Langer de Ramirez, Columbia University

ISBN-10: 0131573500
ISBN-13: 9780131573505

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 216 pp
Published: 02/21/2008

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Take Action! Lesson Plans for a Multicultural Classroom is for all teachers striving to meet the needs of students in today's diverse K-12 classrooms. Take Action! offers 27 practical step-by-step multicultural lesson plans organized around seven microcultures: culture and identity, race and ethnicity, abilities and disabilities, religion, socioeconomics and class, language, and gender and sexuality.
 
 Each chapter includes three lesson plans at three different grade levels (elementary, middle, and secondary). Each lesson plan is presented with an accessible and predictable format, outlines the content areas addressed, provides a recipe-stype list of materials for all the activities in the lesson plan and action projects, and so much more. Connections to national professional standards and benchmarks for K-12 education as outlined by the Mid-continent Research for Education Learning are also included in every lesson plan.  

  • Lesson Plan Video - the Take Action! DVD, located in the front of the book, provides readers with 9 video clips of
  • Standards Matrix -
  • A "Lesson Preparation for the Teacher" section provides activities every teacher should do prior to working on any of the lessons that follow. This section includes:  

    • One Teacher’s Reflection. These are stories written by teachers who reflect on specific incidents related to the chapter topic. These stories come from their own classroom and are meant to stimulate thinking about the connection between theory and practice.

    • Teacher Action Project. These teacher action projects are meant to inspire deeper, more global connections between the teacher and the chapter topic. Teachers might be prompted to visit other classrooms, other schools, or other communities. The projects are meant to expose teachers to the chapter topics in a more visceral way than if the preparation had only been through reading.

    • Suggested Readings and Resources. This section provides the teacher with further reading materials, websites and references extending the action projects by providing teachers with more tools for developing further lessons and projects for their own students.

FULL LESSON PLANS
  • Three complete lesson plans in each chapter  provide novice and experienced teachers with step-by-step lesson  plans. Presenting a predictable and accessible format, each lesson plan includes the following information:

    • Grade levels: Lessons are divided among three categories: Elementary (K-5), Middle School (6-8), and High School (9-12) lessons, with one example of each level provided for each topic/chapter. Though teachers should feel comfortable adapting the lessons to work in their own school context. 

    • Content areas addressed: A list of subject or content areas that are touched upon in the lesson and/or action project.

    • Topic: A brief description of the main topic or topics to be addressed in the lesson.

    • Rationale for Using This Lesson: This section seeks to answer the “why bother?” question when deciding what curriculum to include in one’s class. It provides a sense of the importance of the topic of the lesson. 

    • Background Information: Provides the teacher, and the students, with some necessary information about the main topic(s) in the lesson.

    • Goals/Aims: Gives the teacher a sense for what s/he can expect students to be able to accomplish or do during the lesson and/or as a result of the action project.

    • Connections to Standards: Links to national standards for all the content areas that are included in the lesson. The national standards used in the book were culled from national professional organizations specific to each subject area as well as the excellent compendium of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 education located on the McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) website (www.mcrel.org).

    • Materials: A “recipe-style” list of the materials needed to do all of the activities in the lesson and action project.

    • A step-by step Activity: Includes description of the tasks or activities in the lesson.

    • Action project: A task that helps translate the topic of the lesson into a project that helps benefit the class, the school, or the community.

    • Reflection: Questions for the teacher to reflect on after having presented the lesson to students. These questions may serve as prompts for discussion with colleagues or as topics for reflective journal entries.

    • Resource Page: Photocopiable handout pages that are connected to the lesson.

 

Chapter 1 — Doing Multicultural Education

Lesson #1: Cinderella Around the World

Lesson #2: The Breadth and Depth of “Multicultural”

Lesson #3: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

Chapter 2 — Culture and Identity

Lesson #4: Name Stories

Lesson #5: Creating Culture

Lesson #6: School Uniforms and Freedom of Expression

 

Chapter 3 — Race and Ethnicity

Lesson #7: Changing Colors

Lesson #8: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Lesson #9: The 14th Amendment and Our Schools

 

Chapter 4 — Abilities and (Dis)Abilities

Lesson #10: FDR’s Secret

Lesson #11: Speaking and Writing About People with Disabilities

Lesson #12: Including Students With Disabilities

 

Chapter 5 — Religious Beliefs

Lesson #13: Celebrating Faith

Lesson #14: Geometry and Tessellation in Islamic Art

Lesson #15: To Pledge or Not To Pledge

 

Chapter 6 — Socioeconomics and Class

Lesson #16: We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy

Lesson #17: Class and Health: You Are What You Eat

Lesson #18: Advertising and Social Class

 

Chapter 7 — Language and Communication

Lesson #19: Talking with Your Body

Lesson #20: Accent on Speech

Lesson #21: The Genglish-Only Movement

 

Chapter 8 — Gender and Gender Roles

Lesson #22: Bursting Genderalizations

Lesson #23: Rosalind Franklin: The Other Discoverer of DNA

Lesson #24: Gender in the Media: Implicit Messages

 

Chapter 9 — Sexual Orientation

Lesson #25: Families of All Kinds

Lesson #26: Am I Blue?

Lesson #27: Learning Social Roles

 

Take Action! Lesson Plans for a Multicultural Classroom is essential for all teachers striving to meet the needs of students in today’s diverse K–12 classrooms. Take Action! offers 27 practical step-by-step multicultural lesson plans organized around seven microcultures: culture and identity, race and ethnicity, abilities and disabilities, religion, socioeconomics and class, language, and gender and sexuality.

 

FEATURES FOR SUCCESS IN YOUR CLASSROOM

• Twenty-seven full lesson plans. Three complete lesson plans in each chapter provide novice and experienced teachers with step-by-step lesson plans.

 

• Take Action! DVD. Explore this unique DVD, packaged with the text, to observe video of teachers at various grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school) using nine of the text’s multicultural lesson plans.

 

Each chapter presents:

• A “Lesson Preparation for the Teacher” section providing activities every teacher should do prior to working on any of the lessons that follow.

    This section includes:

• One Teacher’s Reflection. Stories written by teachers who reflect on specific incidents from their classroom help you see the connection between theory and practice.

• Teacher Action Project. These projects prompt teachers to visit other classrooms, other schools, or other communities and inspire a deeper, more global connection to chapter topics.

• Suggested Readings and Resources. These provide further reading materials, websites and references, extending the action projects by providing more tools for developing additional lessons and projects.

• Three lesson plans at three different grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school). Each lesson plan includes:

• An accessible and predictable format.

• An outline of content areas addressed.

• Connections to national professional standards and benchmarks for K—12 education as outlined by the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.

• A recipe-style list of materials for all the activities in the lesson plan and action projects.

• Reflection questions that serve as prompts for in-class discussion or reflective journal entries.

• A resource page providing reproducible handouts.

View a Sample Chapter PDF:

For Multicultural / Multiethnic Education


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