Crossing the Line Between Blue and Pink | Teaching Tolerance.  This is a lovely article about how Oregon teacher Jim Hiller addresses social justice in a literature unit for fourth and fifth graders.  Hiller writes,

Each day for a week or so, I would give a broad overview of an “-ism” that impacted our society: racism, ageism and classism, among others. I read aloud a fiction or non-fiction picture book featuring that topic. My students always detested the cruel and oppressive treatment of individuals like Anne Frank and Jackie Robinson

Then we would hit sexism…