Grade 5: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Racial Discrimination

Grade 5: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Racial Discrimination

Students will:
□ use a few reading comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading to understand texts
□ demonstrate an understanding of the article(s)
□ analyse primary and secondary sources
□ complete vocabulary enrichment activities
□ locate information in a text
□ gather and organize information about the racial discrimination experienced by the Chatham Coloured All-Stars
□ edit their peer’s work
□ use feedback to improve their letter
□ write a letter with complete sentences and appropriate punctuation, grammar, and spelling
□ include all required elements of a letter
□ use vocabulary and terminology related to the unit of study
□ communicate their ideas and information in a clear, coherent, and respectful manner
□ determine reasonable actions to be taken in response to racial discrimination

□ primary and secondary sources (articles and photos)
□ printable activities
□ computers (to type final draft of the letter)
□ dictionaries (for vocabulary activities)

4 – 5 x 35 minute periods

Shantelle Browning-Morgan

June, 2017

University of Windsor

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