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SEL: Offensive Language Audit

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Activity
Grade Level: 
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Language holds the power to unite or divide us, and we may unknowingly use language that excludes or offends our listeners. The language used at home, on TV, in Music, and in the Media often contains insensitive or divisive language with the potential to offend. Youth can identify and make an effort to use more inclusive language instead. By managing their own language, youth can serve as models for their peers and others in their community.

What Is Sacrifice?

Unit: 
Common Good in Aztec Culture
Grades: 
6
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When we take action for the common good, we give up something: a little time or money that might have been spent on something else. Youth explore different forms of sacrifice for the common good and answer the question: When is a sacrifice justified and necessary, and when is it too much or a...

Subjects 
Language Arts
Social Studies

Aztec Religion

Unit: 
Common Good in Aztec Culture
Grades: 
6
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8

From books and research, young people read about the Aztec Empire practice of human sacrifice, which was seen as a gift to help the community. Discuss the concept of sacrifice for the common good and debate individual rights and community responsibility when taking action for the common good....

Subjects 
Language Arts
Social Studies

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