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To enable students to list the conditions which led César Chávez to direct the farm workers' struggle for economic wellbeing and to evaluate current issues facing farm workers and the American consumer today.
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Unit: Concepts of Leadership
Unit: Art as Advocacy
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The learners view works of art that advocate for social change and find that art can influence social change. The learners select an issue of human rights and create a work of art that represents the issue. They write a paragraph of explanation about their work....
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Unit: Cultural Diversity in Service
Grades:
9
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Students read and share information about service and volunteering in different cultures. They compare and contrast the work and mission of four famous philanthropists: Cesar Chavez, George Washington Carver, Sunderlal Buhuguna, and Abdul Sattar Edhi. They identify the motivations, impact, and...
Unit: Private Resources for the Common Good
Grades:
9
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The learners will investigate the roles of contemporary and historic Latino philanthropists. They will look at a creative approach to "capacity building" in Latino organizations as created by the 2003 winners of the Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking...
Unit: Diverse Community: Who Is My Neighbor? (3-5)
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3
4
5
Students identify on a map and in discussion the geographic location and culture of their ancestors. They explore reasons that people moved to the U.S. and discuss the importance of keeping their culture, like a mosaic, rather than losing their culture in order to "fit in."
Unit: Surviving the Depression—1930-1939
Grades:
9
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Students will view life during the depression through primary source interviews with individuals who lived during these hard times.
Unit: What Does It Take?
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Students will become aware of women and minority figures who have made a difference in a civil society.
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
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Learners recognize that famous philanthropists started with small acts of kindness before they performed the influential acts that we remember them for. Students define caring through discussion of examples and writing an acrostic.
Unit: Philanthropists in Our Midst
Grades:
9
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Learners will describe the significant impact that philanthropists have made in American civil and political life.
Unit: Philanthropists in Our Midst: Intro. to Philanthropy Unit (9th)
Grades:
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Learners will identify qualities that exemplify philanthropists and recognize those qualities in a local philanthropist.