Curriculum Unit

Title: Tolerance as a Vehicle for Improving the Speaking Proficiency of ELLs Author: Brittany F. Zezima

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

The Enduring Understandings for this unit are based off of the Delaware state recommended curriculum for students in grades 6-8 as it relates to the concepts surrounding general history and civics. Following this unit, students will recognize the basic characteristics of the major world religions. They will know that differing belief systems sometimes result in feelings of intolerance and that the actions of intolerant individuals are not conducive with effective citizenship.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

(1) What are the major world religions? (2) What are the differences between these religions? And (3) How can people navigate these differences in a tolerant manner?

CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

What are the characteristics of the major world religions? What is intolerance? How can people practice tolerance?

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

How are religions alike and different? What is religious discrimination? What does it mean to be tolerant?

What are the key ideas of each religion? How has it impacted people throughout history? How does tolerance look and sound?

What are the ramifications of intolerance?

VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

Religion, Faith, Follower, Practice, Holy, Prejudice, intolerance, discrimination, Acceptance, indifference, advocate,

genocide, extermination citizenship, experience

Holiday, Leader

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

A Faith Like Mine by Laura Buller

Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loric Dauvillier, Greg Salcedo, and Marc Lizano

The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling