This high-interest, 2-day mini-unit answers questions like: what is a microaggression? How can I avoid using them? How can I respond effectively to them?
These interactive lessons are meant to teach empathy and establish clear expectations for interacting with others in professional environments. Use it as an anti-racism activity during Black History Month. Use it to teach social/life skills to your students with behavioral or emotional struggles. Use it before reading books like To Kill A Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, Stamped, The Hate U Give, The Nickel Boys, The Bluest Eye, Children of Blood and Bone, Sing Unburied Sing, Just Mercy, and more. Use it in US History or social studies when talking about Jim Crow, slavery, civil rights, or modern racism. Or use it as professional development among staff. (Just kidding. But kind of not.)
My students consistently tell me from year to year that this lessons is meaningful to them. (That's huge praise coming from teenagers!)
Micro-Aggressions
- A unit plan doc containing essential questions, CCSS, suggested daily lesson plans, and journal questions to start each with each day
- Links to 2 videos that offer students many perspectives on the topic of microaggressions
- Ready-to-print handout - excerpt from Claudia Rankine's poetry collection Citizen
- Ready-to-print handout - Discussion questions for radio broadcast titled “Microaggressions are a big deal: How to talk them out and when to walk away”
"My students loved this activity! It was well done!"
"We are just getting started with these resources and I am so thankful to have them. I did not have much prep time before launching this, but the heavy lifting is already done... Thank you for all of your work!"
"What's not to love?... The kids could follow with this resource, no problem."