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Lesson 2: Build Knowledge: Poverty and Inequality in the 1960s

California CCSS: Focus Standards

Review a video and an informational article to analyze how poverty and economic inequality impacted Americans in the 1960s and beyond.
Summarize ideas from an informational text and use these summaries to develop original ideas.
Explore the relationship between two vocabulary words and connect these words to informational texts.

How do relationships and communities shape a person’s sense of belonging and identity?

Short-Form Text

Who’s poor in America? 50 years into the ‘War on Poverty,’ a data portrait

Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center

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