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Review Do Now Read Orientation Day Identity Maps
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Considering Jennifer Wang as an example, how would you go about defining identity? Dont write a definition of identity, but DO write at least 3 sentences describing what factors you would have to consider.
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Review Do Now New Terms Read We and They Listen to Little Things are Big Tough Choices
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Hints:
Choose a decision that involved stereotyping or prejudice Explain why the decision was difficult to make Explain the factors that shaped the decision Explain the effects of making the tough choice What lessons did you/they learn from this decision?
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Have You Ever? The Pyramid of Hate prejudice School bullying in Japan Universe of Obligation
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Homework due tomorrow: Read The In Group by Eve Shalen (10 points)
GENOCIDE
VIOLENCE
DISCRIMINATION
Some time during the next month, they increased the seriousness of their conduct they surrounded him and two boys held his arms while the others hit and kicked him. Eventually, one of the boys threatened to bring his fathers gun into school the next day to kill the boy. At this point another student overheard the threat and the police were notified.
Universe of Obligation
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Can you imagine yourself interrupting an incident of bullying at school? Why/Why not?
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Debrief Homework Movie trailer, Bully Up is Down New terms
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In the video, Up is Down, should the adults have forced the boy to conform to their point of view? Why/why not?
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Show Ms. Stevenson your paragraph, get it stamped to leave the room.
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Review Do Now South Philadelphia High School (2009) Big Papers/Silent Conversation
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Do you think you were more or less comfortable sharing your real opinion during the silent conversation than if you were talking out loud? What did you NOT say?
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Review Do Now Background on Liberia Watch Pray the Devil Back to Hell
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Notes: Background
Liberia was founded as a country by African slaves who returned there from America. Liberian Civil War was a power struggle among different social classes, and resulted in brutal murder, mutilation, and rape. In 2003, a group of womencalled Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peaceunited their efforts despite Christian/Muslim religious differences, to create a resistance movement. The womens resistance movement was NONVIOLENT, and became very political.
Map: Liberia
EXIT TICKET:
What do you think about the idea of nonviolent resistance? How does the Liberian womens nonviolent political resistance compare to standing up to bullying at school?
Announcements Homework due tomorrow: Read On Photography by Susan Sontag (10 points)
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1. How does one determine punishment? Is everyone equally guilty? Or do some bear more responsibility than others? Can an entire nation be guilty?
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Use yesterdays notes to finish adding WWII & Holocaust to your Case Studies Organizer
Map: Sudan
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Do you agree with what the class decided about the role of the photojournalist? If he were still alive, what would you say to Kevin Carter about his infamous photograph of the starving girl and the vulture?
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Review Do Now Introduce Culminating Project Read Prologue to Rescuers Wrap up 1st two weeks
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Culminating Project
You will select a new case story to research on your own, and write a first person narrative (either a newspaper editorial or a petition) from the perspective of a person living at that time in history.
Culminating Project
In the next week you will: Complete Planning Worksheet Check Out a Research Packet Complete a Case Studies Organizer for your topic Write a 1-page handwritten analysis about the role of an individual in the Case Study Write a 2-page typed newspaper editorial or a petition from the perspective of the individual presented in your 1-page analysis Present your Case Study to the class Return Research Packet Self-Evaluation ____________________ Total: 100 points
Culminating Project
Read the handout. Read the list of topic ideas, and/or create your own. On your index card, write your top 3 choices for a research topic. Hand the card to Ms. Stevenson for approval.
Writing Reflection:
How does studying the role of the individual change your understanding of how people (including yourself) act in your own life? What is the role of the individual in making change happen in your life? (Hint: use the terms victim, perpetrator, bystander, and upstander in your answer)
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This unit is all new material for Ms. Stevensondo you think she should teach it again next year? Why/why not?
(write 2 comments about the unit, and 1 question)