Identity Bench
Pre-assessment Survey: https://forms.gle/gvv57D8Vp45HQRYv7
Leading/investigating questions:
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Leading/investigating Questions:
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Where are you from?
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What do you like to do? With friends? With family?
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What are your peer/friends’ identities?
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Do your friends/social circle share similar identities? If not— do you have support for those aspects of your identity?
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What memories can you recall that have helped to shape your identity?
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Have you ever experienced judgment because of an aspect of your identity?
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Do you feel like you can openly and safely express your affection for love interests?
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Do you feel as if your school represents your big identity when offering support networks, clubs, events, etc?
From this lesson, students will accomplish a sense of identity within themselves and each other. They will complete a product (artwork-covered benches) that represents some of their identities, and through reflection, will make key connections with other students.
TEACHERS have constructed wooden benches for the students to use as their canvas.
STUDENTS will create brainstorming symbols to incorporate onto the benches as surface embellishments. They will finish with several products: the stencils, the surface decoration on the benches, and finished ideation sheets.
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Post Assessment Reflection Questions
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What is YOUR personal definition of Identity? Name specific examples from your own life
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What did you create today? (With both the stencils and the benches)
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What techniques did you use in your artwork? What about colors and imagery? How do all of those things relate to your personal identity?​
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Name one thing you learned during the lesson:
