The students that I will be teaching this curriculum to are students of West Rock Authors Academy. This school is a K-4 school, and the students I work are in grades 2-4. These students are, as a whole, underprivileged and underserved. The majority of them are African American and Hispanic, many come from single parent households, and most of them receive free or reduced lunches. My classes are enrichment classes, these students have scored higher than most of their classmates on standardized tests like the SRI, but they are a small group and there are only 10 of them in total out of the entire school out of a couple hundred. This school is a K-4 school and my students are students in grades 2-4. These students are from families that are low income, sometimes single-parent, and are typically minorities. They are the type of students that have yet to realize the full potential that their rights as citizens will and have already granted them. The aim of the curriculum will aim is to help students identify with their citizenship, discuss with them what the word citizenship actually means and how it effects them, and what they have access to by being citizens. It will also cover how citizenship in the U.S. has changed since the founding and how that has affected the students, for example women gaining the right to vote. Overall I aim to help them understand the benefits that they have and to use them to the fullest.
