The Last Stop On Market

Street - Diverse Thinking

Ashton Skadsen and Sarah Herman

Introduction to our lesson

Multicultural childrens book:

Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt De La Pena

Stations:
ELA - Connecting to emotions
characters feel, responding
through charts and reflections.
Math - Connecting to Pullman,
creating graphs.
Academic Standards

ELA-
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask
and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central
message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges

Math-
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up
to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar
graph.
Social Justice Standards

DI.K-2.9 I know everyone has feelings, and I want to get

along with people who are similar to and different from me.

JU.K-2.11 I know my friends have many identities, but they

are always still just themselves.

AC.K-2.20 I will join with classmates to make our classroom

fair for everyone.

2016 Teaching Tolerance

Social Justice Connection

Alignment with 6 Elements of Social Justice Education:

1. Self-love and knowledge: Why We Live Where We Live

2. Respect for others: Not stereotyping a person
3. Issues of Social Justice: Addressing poverty
4. Social Justice Movements and Social Changes: Tent- Cities
Around Washington State
5. Awareness Raising: Encouraging talk about and break down
stereotypes
6. Social Action: Community Action Centers
Picower, B. (2012) Using their words: Six elements of social justice curriculum design for the elementary classroom. International Journal of Multicultural
Education. Vol. 14 (1).
ELA Station
To begin our lesson the students will participate in an assumption guide
- This will help the students realize the change in perspective on
social justice issues
We will begin with a read aloud of The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De
La Pena
- While one preservice teacher reads, the other will interact with the
students to capture on the board the emotions in which C.J. feels
compared to his Grandmas emotions.
Next the students will be given worksheets where they will be given the
situations of the stories, and then color in the emotions in which C.J. and
his Grandma felt towards it.
- This will allow the students to understand the different outlooks on
the situation and see them side by side.
Following the students will respond with an illustration to the prompt:
- Pick one event in the story and draw a picture show how CJ could
have changed his view allowing the students to consider different
perspectives
Pulling from prior knowledge

We will have students reflect

back to their social studies
lesson where they will have the
opportunity to pull the knowledge
they put together, to compare to
the assumptions put on them by
society.
Math Station

As we work to break down the Stereotype that all poor

people ride the bus we will talk about modes of
transportation in the classroom.

- Students will gather data from their classmates on how they get to school
(bus, parents, walk, etc) and create a graph with their classmates
- Students will construct and compare the bar graph they made and discuss
how transportation does not indicate a persons socioeconomic status
- After we have talked about our own data we will discuss how we think this
data might change if we lived in a different part of the Washington,
United States, part of the World
The Next Step: Action

Addressing Stereotypes:

- Students are asked to think and discuss in groups other

stereotypes in their class and school wide. Just as we
broke down the stereotype of socioeconomic status and
transportation we want the kids to think about
assumptions we make and how we can break them down.
- We also will provide information on volunteering in Soup
Kitchens in our own community