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Identity Showcase

By Malia Gregory
What is identity? How is identity developed? How does identity affect our relationships? What makes me who I am? Why and how do identities change over time? These are the important questions Grade 4 students asked themselves as they began their social justice unit focusing on identity.
What is identity? How is identity developed? How does identity affect our relationships? What makes me who I am? Why and how do identities change over time? These are the important questions Grade 4 students asked themselves as they began their social justice unit focusing on identity.

Students began to define identity and explore their own through novels, read-alouds, and cross-curricular activities. Students wrote realistic fiction stories and analyzed characters’ identities, making connections to their own. They explored representation in novels by making Venn diagrams and identity webs to uncover similarities and differences between themselves and characters in books they read in class. After completing family interviews at home, students discussed family structures and shared about what made their families unique.

The culmination of this unit was an Identity Showcase where students presented individual identity projects for Grade 4 families and JTD faculty and staff. Projects included photo collages, memory boxes, acrostic poems, and other artistic representations focusing on identity and individuality. One of the highlights of the Showcase were the fourth graders’ spirited renditions of The Who’s “Who Are You” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Shining Star.” The Showcase was a celebration of identity, and gave each fourth grader a platform to express their own unique voice.  

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