Mini Lessons/Class Activities
In my curriculum, the topic of identity and its interpretation from different generations will show how definition of self came to be. Did self-identity evolve from family cultural stories or life experience? Teacher and students will read a scenario that relates to identity through cultural story or through life experience. Scenario of each type of identity will help categorize students’ thinking. Once the two types are presented, students can differentiate and begin to categorize each family member’s source of identity. Students’ goal is collect the story of their family’s identity. Students interview one parent. As a class we will analyze the history of the student’s parent and then discuss the type of identity their family and themselves develop.
In addition, the curriculum will entail some interviews of community leaders, past leaders, grandparents, parents, and workers that travel the United States to earn a living all of which will show the connection of great-grandparents. It might be premature to think that our great-grandparents’ life and identity were simple but our studies of Navajo history and interviews of our parents’ insight might show us otherwise. I am excited to learn from students’ conclusion of how identity came about for them.
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