![]() ![]() My goal in designing the scope of the units was to give students as many perspectives as possible through which to consider this question, and repeated opportunities to complicate and deepen their answers. The guiding question for our 7th Grade ELA curriculum is “what does it mean to be American?” ![]() ![]() Why write a unit about the experiences of LGBTQ+ Americans? Because LGBTQ+ history is American history The unit begins with a two-day (very!) brief overview of the last ~60 years of LGBTQ+ history in the United States and culminates in a capstone task in which students independently research a significant LGBTQ+ American and write a persuasive essay about why this person should be honored as a hero. This unit centers around The 57 Bus, a nonfiction text about an agender teenager, Sasha Fleishman, who was assaulted while wearing a skirt on a public bus in Oakland, California. ![]() We have recently added a new unit to our 7th Grade ELA curriculum: Claiming Our Place: LGBTQ+ Experiences in the United States. ![]()
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