Vocabulary Games for Social Justice
This packet includes a series of vocabulary games designed for 11th grade and up to help students master key terms related to social justice and cultural studies. The activities aim to build understanding and retention of complex concepts.
“Create a series of vocabulary games that will help students acquire the definition of the following: diaspora, hegemony, mestizo, colonize, indigenous, specter, condemn, conform, code-switch, code-mesh, assimilate, and remorse”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use these games as a warm-up for a unit on social justice or cultural studies.
- Discussion question: How does understanding terms like 'diaspora' and 'hegemony' change how we view historical events?
- For struggling learners, provide sentence frames to help them use the new vocabulary in context.
- Advanced learners can research and present on the historical or contemporary relevance of one of the vocabulary terms.
- Estimated time: 45-60 minutes.
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Try Diffit for free“Create a series of vocabulary games that will help students acquire the definition of the following: diaspora, hegemony, mestizo, colonize, indigenous, specter, condemn, conform, code-switch, code-mesh, assimilate, and remorse”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use these games as a warm-up for a unit on social justice or cultural studies.
- Discussion question: How does understanding terms like 'diaspora' and 'hegemony' change how we view historical events?
- For struggling learners, provide sentence frames to help them use the new vocabulary in context.
- Advanced learners can research and present on the historical or contemporary relevance of one of the vocabulary terms.
- Estimated time: 45-60 minutes.
Vocabulary Games for Social Justice
This packet includes a series of vocabulary games designed for 11th grade and up to help students master key terms related to social justice and cultural studies. The activities aim to build understanding and retention of complex concepts.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free