Introduction to Unit
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1. Hook: We will watch a part of an episode of WWYD.
2. Injustices of the past discussion. Have students experienced injustice? Profiling? Racism? Sexism? Any sort of prejudice. Share out? 3. Does Racism/Prejudice Still exist today free write and discussion. Unit will be framed around three types of discrimination/Privilege: Racism, Sexism, Sexual Orientation (lets look at the chart of rights and freedoms and see the other types of discrimination). 4. Look at the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - what does it guarantee us? |
5. View Slideshow - Brief History of Racism in the USA - this will help us understand the Movie "Mississippi Burning."
6. Read "Dream Deferred" and answer questions about it.
6. Read "Dream Deferred" and answer questions about it.
After reading the poem, we will have a class discussion where each student must ask a question or make a comment on the poem.
A. Can you identify 5 Similes B. What is the dominant poetic device being used? C. What is a "Dream Deferred" D. What is the poem alluding to ? (What is an allusion?) |
7. Watch Martin Luther King Video... what is his dream? What is powerful about his speech?
Lesson 2
1. Start by showing "Chris Rock Explains Racism" - discuss as a class.
2. Definite "White Privilege"
"White privilege is a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others. White privilege can exist without white people's conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country." - Mount Holyoke College.
2. Definite "White Privilege"
"White privilege is a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others. White privilege can exist without white people's conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country." - Mount Holyoke College.
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4. Eddie Murphy Undercover as a white man (Example of White Privilege being made fun of):
http://www.snotr.com/video/422/Eddie_Murphy_goes_undercover -Class discussion 5. Activity. We will do one of the following and discuss: A. Privilege Walk: http://www.albany.edu/ssw/efc/pdf/Module%205_1_Privilege%20Walk%20Activity.pdf B. Paper Ball Activity: http://www.buzzfeed.com/nathanwpyle/this-teacher-taught-his-class-a-powerful-lesson-about-privil#.gg3RRA2m69 C. Privilege Chains http://www.life.arizona.edu/docs/social-justice/privilege-chains.pdf?sfvrsn=4 |
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6. Read Articles on Racism and Share out.
Or we can read articles on Kindness as a way to do something positive.
Students will learn how to summarize and will have to summarize key points, include a picture and draw one significant conclusion from the article they choose. Will do this on one of the class white boards.
Non-Fiction:
Article on the KKK Photocpied and in class
websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/white-supremacists-canada/
https://www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf - White backpack of Privilege
Macleans Article on racism
Or we can read articles on Kindness as a way to do something positive.
Students will learn how to summarize and will have to summarize key points, include a picture and draw one significant conclusion from the article they choose. Will do this on one of the class white boards.
Non-Fiction:
Article on the KKK Photocpied and in class
websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/white-supremacists-canada/
https://www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf - White backpack of Privilege
Macleans Article on racism
Non-Fiction:
Article on the KKK Photocpied and in class
websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/white-supremacists-canada/
https://www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf - White backpack of Privilege
Macleans Article on racism
News:
-Fergusson
-Brown case
Websites:
http://www.debwewin.ca/racism.htm - Racism in Canada
Songs about Racism/Discrimination: http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_about_racism_or_discrimination.php
Activities:
1. Privilege Walk: http://www.albany.edu/ssw/efc/pdf/Module%205_1_Privilege%20Walk%20Activity.pdf
2. Paper Ball Activity: http://www.buzzfeed.com/nathanwpyle/this-teacher-taught-his-class-a-powerful-lesson-about-privil#.gg3RRA2m69
3. Privilege Chains http://www.life.arizona.edu/docs/social-justice/privilege-chains.pdf?sfvrsn=4
4. Website with Multiple Resources: https://wiki.uiowa.edu/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=31756792
Songs:
Sweet Home alabama
Southern Man
Maclemore - same love
Changes - tupac
They don't really Care about us - Michael Jackson
Poem:
-Dream Deferred
-Emmet Till
-3 Foot Tall / Inner Ninja
Film/Video
- "16x9 - Brotherhood of Hate: White supremacy on the rise in Canada" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiGlyvIWMB4
-Martin Luther King Jr speech -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
-Mississipi Burning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi4umFbbPWo
- Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeK759FF84s
-Chris Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JtV5VnU-s
-Eddie Murphy Undercover as a white person: http://www.snotr.com/video/422/Eddie_Murphy_goes_undercover
Non-Fiction:
Article on the KKK Photocpied and in class
websites: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/white-supremacists-canada/
https://www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf - White backpack of Privilege
Macleans Article on racism
News:
-Fergusson
-Brown case
Websites:
http://www.debwewin.ca/racism.htm - Racism in Canada
Songs about Racism/Discrimination: http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_about_racism_or_discrimination.php
Activities:
1. Privilege Walk: http://www.albany.edu/ssw/efc/pdf/Module%205_1_Privilege%20Walk%20Activity.pdf
2. Paper Ball Activity: http://www.buzzfeed.com/nathanwpyle/this-teacher-taught-his-class-a-powerful-lesson-about-privil#.gg3RRA2m69
3. Privilege Chains http://www.life.arizona.edu/docs/social-justice/privilege-chains.pdf?sfvrsn=4
4. Website with Multiple Resources: https://wiki.uiowa.edu/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=31756792
Songs:
Sweet Home alabama
Southern Man
Maclemore - same love
Changes - tupac
They don't really Care about us - Michael Jackson
Poem:
-Dream Deferred
-Emmet Till
-3 Foot Tall / Inner Ninja
Film/Video
- "16x9 - Brotherhood of Hate: White supremacy on the rise in Canada" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiGlyvIWMB4
-Martin Luther King Jr speech -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
-Mississipi Burning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi4umFbbPWo
- Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeK759FF84s
-Chris Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JtV5VnU-s
-Eddie Murphy Undercover as a white person: http://www.snotr.com/video/422/Eddie_Murphy_goes_undercover
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