9-12 & College
GRADE LEVEL
90 Min
DURATION
Disability
Topic
Civics
Subject
Identity
Social Justice Domain
Description
This lesson encourages students to think about the ways disability affects their lives in unexpected ways. Students will make connections between disability and Important historical events, including the labor movement of the early twentieth century, the construction of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., and the application of chemical warfare during the Vietnam war. Students will then analyze how disability has been used to justify slavery and racial discrimination by medical professionals In the United States.
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Essential questions
- Why should people care about disability?
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify the ways in which disability is relevant to all people and their history and will analyze multiple primary sources that demonstrate how disability has been used to oppress marginalized groups over time.Â
Vocabulary
- Section 14(c) of the 1938 Fair Labor and Standards Act
- Built Environment
- Agent Orange
- Implicit Bias
- Ableism
CONTENT WARNING
This lesson contains topics relating to child labor, slavery, institutionalization, and oppression.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
- Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
- Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social studies.
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
- 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.
- Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text.
- Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole.
- Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
Common Core State Standards | Page 61
https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ADA-Compliant-ELA-Standards.pdf
PROCEDURE
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