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15 Minutes Independent Reading Do Now: 15 Minutes Independent Reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VS20XrHivw

SOCIAL JUSTICE justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.

What privileges did Esperanza have that other people on Mango Street did not?

What does Esperanza’s choice to return to Mango Street to help those who are stuck there have to do with the topic of social justice?

How can someone with more privilege help someone with less?

1960’s in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQGRjoupVgg

Infer: what did the rise of all of these social justice movements tell you about the fairness and equality of American life in the 1960’s?