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Diversity Lesson Plan
Diversity Lesson Plan
Materials:
Standard(s): CCSS.ELA- Literacy. RL. 1.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where,
when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Objective(s): Students will be able to find significance in their own name and in others in
writing through both individual study and class sharing with 90% accuracy.
Procedure:
Introduce: Show students the front cover of The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi.
Pass out slips of paper and ask, If you could change your name, what would you
change it to be? Would you want to change your name? Do you want your
name to mean something to you? How would you feel if no one else
understood your name?
Read: Teacher reads the book to the entire class.
Discuss:
Questions: Students will be verbally asked the questions by the teacher and then
given time to write the answers down on paper. Then students will be asked to
volunteer to answer each question.
1. Why do you think it is important that Unheis grandmother gave her a box
with her Korean name in it?
4. Why was joey at the Korean grocery store where Mr. Kim works?
5. Do you think that Unhei should have kept her Korean name? Why?
Activities:
1. Students will write down their first name on a piece of paper and put it in a big jar. Then
students will write down what they think their name means, if they do not know, then
they will use technology and look up their name on https://www.names.org/ and write
down the meaning that they like the best.
2. Students will then take that answer and write a one paragraph essay on what their
name means to them, if they like it or not and why they do or do not like their name.
Evaluation: The teacher will then pull each name out of the jar for sharing time about each
students name and what they found so that the teacher can access each student.