LESSON 2 · 🔒 PREMIUM

The House That Holds Us

Place, belonging, and the strength found in community

50 minutes RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.6, SL.8.1
Learning Objectives

Students explore how physical spaces — neighborhoods, homes, barrios, and borderlands — shape identity and become sites of both oppression and resilience. Through a vignette about a Latina girl who finds power in the very neighborhood others dismiss, and a poem about a family rebuilding after displacement, students discover that home is not just where you live — it is what you refuse to let anyone take from you.

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