Poverty and School Journeys
Grade 5•45 minutes
Learning Objective
I can compare different journeys to school and think about how poverty might make them harder.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. Describe the speaker's journey to school as a child. What made it different from her neighborhood friends' journeys?
2. According to the speaker, how might poverty affect the resources available at a school? Give at least three examples from the video.
3. The speaker felt "survivor's remorse." What does this mean in the context of her education, and why did she feel this way?
...and 4 more questions
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How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner
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