2nd Grade Diversity Lesson Plan

Teacher: Ms. Kaitlyn Luchette

Date: February 22, 2018
Book: Yo! Yes?
By: Christopher Raschka
Published: Weston Woods Studios, Incorporated, 2012
Grade Level: Prekindergarten- 3rd grade
Multicultural Themes
 Developing friendships and social groups
 Contact with other culture groups
 Diversity

Education Standards
 CCSE.ELA- Literacy. R.L 1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story,
using key details.
 CCSE.ELA- Literacy. RL. 2.7 – Use information gained from the illustration and words
in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Objective
 Students will be able to describe characters, settings, and major events in a story using
key details in a class discussion with 95% accuracy.
 Students will be able to illustrate friendship and acceptance of different cultures by
creating Multicultural paper dolls with 90% accuracy.

Materials Needed
 The book Yo! Yes? By Christopher Raschka
 White board
 Dry erase markers
 Contrustion paper to make the Multicultral Paper Dolls
 Scissors
 Colored Pencils, Crayons, Colored Markers

Procedures
1. Introduce: Read the book to the class Yo! Yes? By Christopher Raschka without
showing them the pictures or using different voices. Then ask the students “What they
thought the difference between the two boys was, if any differences at all.” Then ask,
“Do those differences affect their friendship and play time? Why or why not?”

2. Read: Teacher reads book aloud without showing pictures first time around.
 3. Discuss: After the book is read one time through without showing the pictures ask the
students if they felt the two boys had any difference without seeing what they looked like.
After they answer re-read the book with showing the illustration and see if their answers
change. Then have them actively as a class answers the 5 questions below.

 Question 1. Why do you think I read the book aloud without the illustration the first time
around?
 Question 2. Did this book represent friendship? Why or why not?
 Question 3. What brought these two boys together?
 Question 4: Did the appearance of the boys make a difference in their friendship?
 Question 5: If you saw a lonely peer (boy or girl) on the playground at recess alone
would you ask them to play despite how they look?

Activities
1. In groups of 5 students will individually cut out paper dolls using construction paper
and scissors. They will then look at their peers in their group and determine the
differences such as hair, skin, and eye color and then using colored pencils, markers,
or crayons draw that on their paper dolls ( I will give an example and show them how
that should be presented.) This project will be called the Multicultural paper dolls.

Evaluation
Teacher checks students’ works making sure it is appropriate, accurate, and the
acknowledgment of diversity.