Community-led Organizations
In this lesson, students will explore the impact of community-led organizations while examining the importance of representation in a community. Students will engage in class discussions, a gallery walk, and analyze primary source photographs and advertisements to learn about the community of South Los Angeles. Students will be able to write a narrative about an important member of their community and will design their own doll that represents an important community member.
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Lesson: How can we create our own narratives to foster the stories of our community
Content Standards
3.3.3. Trace why their community was established, how individuals and families contributed to its founding and development, and how the community has changed over time, drawing on maps, photographs, oral histories, letters, newspapers, and other primary sources.
CCSS Standards
RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur)
W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
The Lost LA Curriculum project is a collaboration among PBS SoCal, USC Libraries, the UCLA History-Geography Project and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
