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Community Identity Inquiry Workbook

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Community Identity Inquiry Workbook

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Part 1: Communities, Identity, Rights, and Responsibilities

Directions: Use evidence and respectful language. Describe what you notice without making assumptions about a group.

1. Compare two communities. Record one similarity and one difference. Avoid stereotypes by describing specific evidence.

Community A: ________________________________    Community B: ________________________________

Similarity: ____________________________________________________________________________________

Difference: ____________________________________________________________________________________

Sentence starter: Both communities ______________________, but they differ in ______________________.

2. Write one focused question about culture, belonging, symbols, traditions, rights, or responsibilities.
3. Analyze one symbol or tradition. What is it, what might it communicate about identity, and what evidence supports your interpretation?

Symbol or tradition: ____________________________________________________________________________

Meaning or message: ____________________________________________________________________________

Sentence starter: This symbol or tradition may bring people together by ______________________. Its meaning may be different for some people because ______________________.

4. Match each setting with a right and a related responsibility. Complete the chart in your own words.
Family
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________
School
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________
Community
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________
Nation
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________
World
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________
Faith community
Right: ____________________
Responsibility: ____________________

Sentence starter: A right is protected when people ________________________________.

5. Choose one responsibility that promotes safety, fairness, inclusion, or well-being. Explain the need it addresses and what could happen if it is ignored.

Part 2: Research and Source Notes

Directions: Use several teacher-approved print or digital sources. Record information in your own words.

6. Write your focused research question and two related subquestions.

Main question: __________________________________________________________________________________

Subquestion A: _________________________________________________________________________________

Subquestion B: _________________________________________________________________________________

Source Note 1

Author or organization: __________________________________________________________________________

Title: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Date published or updated, if available: ___________________________________________________________

Key information: _________________________________________________________________________________

My paraphrase: __________________________________________________________________________________

Citation information or citation: _________________________________________________________________

Source Note 2

Author or organization: __________________________________________________________________________

Title: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Date published or updated, if available: ___________________________________________________________

Key information: _________________________________________________________________________________

My paraphrase: __________________________________________________________________________________

Citation information or citation: _________________________________________________________________

7. Check each statement that is true of your sources.

The source is relevant to my research question.

The source gives evidence or identifies where information came from.

The author or organization has useful knowledge or expertise.

The information agrees with, or can be compared with, another source.

The date and purpose of the source make sense for my topic.

One reason I can use these sources is: ___________________________________________________________

Part 3: Community Guide, Peer Review, and Reflection

Directions: Create a one-page community guide or presentation script for an authentic audience. Use evidence from several sources.

8. Plan your introduction. Name your topic and preview the three main ideas you will explain.

Topic: __________________________________________________________________________________________

Preview sentence: This guide explains ______________________, ______________________, and ______________________.

Heading 1: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Heading 2: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Heading 3: ______________________________________________________________________________________

9. Plan your evidence and visual. List one fact or example for each heading and describe a visual, chart, or image you could include.

Heading 1 evidence: ______________________________________________________________________________

Heading 2 evidence: ______________________________________________________________________________

Heading 3 evidence: ______________________________________________________________________________

Visual or chart idea: _____________________________________________________________________________

10. Draft your community guide. Include an introduction, three headings, accurate paraphrases, source acknowledgments, and a conclusion.
11. Peer review: Read a partner's guide. Record one strength and one specific revision suggestion.

One strength: ___________________________________________________________________________________

One revision suggestion: __________________________________________________________________________

My revision goal: Before I present, I will _________________________________________________.

12. Final reflection: How do symbols, traditions, rights, and responsibilities contribute to community identity? Use at least one piece of evidence from your inquiry.

Sentence starter: People build a safe, respectful, shared community when ________________________________.

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