CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Students will examine multiple charts that illustrate income, wealth, and opportunity inequality as well as charts on interventions that seem to level the playing field. They will use these charts to see the problem of inequality and consider possible interventions for closing the gap.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
Students will listen to and read Lyndon B. Johnson's commencement address for Howard University and respond to the text using the strategy Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World in order to summarize and make connections to the speech.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.8 Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
Students will consider the data charts illustrating inequality in collaboration with the first-hand account by J.D. Vance in his Ted Talk
America's Forgotten Working Class
in order to propose possible interventions to close the inequality gap.
TH:Cn11.1.HSIII Develop a drama/theatre work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems.
Students will create pieces of theatre that inform their audience about the problems of economic inequality and the possible choices that can be made to increase the likelihood of upward mobility.