Sections of the Berlin Wall. Today in class, we did an activity with the walls in the classroom.
Hello everyone,
Welcome back to your last week before Spring Break! Here's what happened today in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.Explains the process of change and continuity in a society, place or region.
AGENDA 3/19/18:
Check In/Review of Four Agreements & Six Conditions
Questions about 13TH
What Can I Do Today?
Definitions
Prejudicial Terms
Homework: Read the blog! Turn in your Writing for Justice narrative if you have not yet.
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Check In/Review of Four Agreements & Six Conditions: Here are the Courageous Conversations Agreements. We will always review this at the beginning of class, as it sets the foundation for how we want class to approach the issues we are studying.
Questions about 13TH: We will try to tackle a few questions from students each class that came up out of our viewing of 13TH. Today's questions were:
If the information isn't new why does it feel so new and powerful?
Now that Marijuana is legal in a lot of states, why are people still in prison for possession of marijuana? Why haven’t they been released?
What Can I Do Today?: Last class, we sensed that students wanted a way to more concretely engage in the issues we are talking about, outside of class. As such, we are introducing a "What Can I Do Today?" poster in class, where students can write down actions or activities that are happening which could have a positive impact. We will continue adding to this list as we work together this semester!
Definitions: Next, we looked at definitions for bias, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Here is the slide we showed in class:
If the information isn't new why does it feel so new and powerful?
Now that Marijuana is legal in a lot of states, why are people still in prison for possession of marijuana? Why haven’t they been released?
What Can I Do Today?: Last class, we sensed that students wanted a way to more concretely engage in the issues we are talking about, outside of class. As such, we are introducing a "What Can I Do Today?" poster in class, where students can write down actions or activities that are happening which could have a positive impact. We will continue adding to this list as we work together this semester!
Definitions: Next, we looked at definitions for bias, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Here is the slide we showed in class:
We will be using these definitions in class! In fact, our next activity was about the use of stereotypes.
Prejudicial Terms: For the last part of class, we asked our non-black students to think of prejudicial terms or stereotypes that they have heard about black students and people. With this list, we put up the terms around the room and then had our black students re-enter to look and see which terms they had experience with or heard. We wanted this to be a powerful, quiet activity for reflection for all of our students. We will continue to talk about stereotypes and their impact next class!
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