We were learned about segregation reading the book The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson and discussing photographs of segregated places during Jim Crow. In the lesson shown in the video, we extended this conversation by exploring segregation from an earlier time in American history.  This lesson began with a word study, collecting background knowledge about the words Equal, Segregation, and Resilience. We read the book Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh and stoped to process the story as we read. Students recorded new understandings and questions on a note catcher. After reading we revisited our focus words to see how our understandings changed from their usage in the book. Following our discussion we watched a video from an interview with Sylvia Mendez filmed a few years earlier. This really helped the students understand these events happened not too long ago and are still impacting us today.