Diversity Lesson Plan

Sha Heilman
Book: Rad Women Worldwide, Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl,2016
Grade Level: 8th Grade
Subject: Social Studies
Multicultural Theme: Learning about the impact women have had, and the
impact every child can have.

Materials:
The book Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl.
Students will have the choice of using a visual component which would require a
poster board, colored markers, or creating their project with PowerPoint. Both
choices would require a computer for research purposes.

Standards:
SS.6-8.WGGS.10. Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people
have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local,
regional, and global problems.
SS.6-8. WGGS.11. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to
make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Objective:
The student will be able to identify historical women of the past and present, using
daily character charts, formative assessments, and a final project with %95
accuracy.

Procedure:

Introduce:
The class will begin the lesson with a short 30-second poem read by Maya
Angelou called Love Liberates and the class will be asked whether or not they
know who is speaking and have them write their guesses down. The same model
will be used by showing two more women and have the students write their
guesses down. After some discussion about who it was and whether or not anyone
in the class knew, they will write down as many women as they can that they know
have had a significant impact on history. When the discussion slows down, the
class will be given and introduced to the book Rad Women Worldwide by Kate
Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl.
Read:
Each student will have to read aloud one women's story at a time to the class until
the book is completed.

Discuss:
1. What were some of the main obstacles these women had to overcome?
2. Were there any women you were not aware of before that you would tell a
friend or family member about?
3. What type of impact do you see yourself having in the future?
4. Do you think you would have known about these women had you not
learned them from this book?
5. If you could choose one of these women living or not to have a discussion
with today who would it be? What questions would you ask her?

Activities:
1. There will be daily character charts to fill out for each woman read for the
day. These will ask everything from the names of the women, what they
were well known for, when they were born, and what struggles they had to
overcome.
2. They will have a project due by the time we are finished reading the book
that they will present to the class. They will choose who their favorite
woman was that we read about and give a brief history. They are allowed to
be as creative as they want in telling about the women as long as a minimum
of 5 facts are given. The main point will be to provide what each student
wants their impact on history to be. This is where it is shown that no matter
male or female, we can all be known for having a positive impact on our
community. The student can either present this in a poster board or in a
PowerPoint presentation.

Evaluation:
The teacher will be able to see if the student is actively engaged in reading with the
character charts. The teacher will be able to assess the students' comprehension of
the information with the final project and whether the student understands we can
all have an impact towards a more positive society.