CHALLENGE 4: SOCIAL JUSTICE

 CHALLENGE NUMBER 4:  Social Justice

#LiteracyApproach #LiteracyisforLife

The world is not equal. Is that fair? IT IS NOT. I encourage you to learn about the life and experience of someone who is different from you. I invite you to put yourself in his/her/their shoes and see what life is like from their perspective.

SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities
#LiteracyApproach #LiteracyIsForLife

GOAL: To explore inequality through empathy and storytelling.

Core literacy skills

• Perspective-taking

• Narrative voice

• Writing monologues
  
  

TASKS

Introduce “The Shoes Moment”

CHOOSE a simple profiles of people from different backgrounds:

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  A migrant teen
  A neighbourhood elder
  A child affected by drought
  A person with a disability
  
  

• Pick a Profile: choose one life, describe it and answer:
  
  

• What challenges does this person face?
  How might climate or inequality affect them?
  What would they want others to know?
  
  

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  Micro-Product: “A Day in My Shoes” Monologue
  Write a first-person narrative, for example:  “My street smells of dust. The well is farther each day…”
  
  

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  Sharing Circle: read it aloud.
  
  

This mini-project is about Values-based education and Building global citizenship.