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CLASSISM For Seniors

CLASSISM For Seniors. Adelaide Shultz Benjamin Towe ED 301 SEC 02. ACTIVITIES. OBJECTIVES. To raise awareness of class stratification To foster acceptance and tolerance To better critical thinking skills To allow students different mediums of expression

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CLASSISM For Seniors

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  1. CLASSISMFor Seniors Adelaide Shultz Benjamin Towe ED 301 SEC 02

  2. ACTIVITIES

  3. OBJECTIVES • To raise awareness of class stratification • To foster acceptance and tolerance • To better critical thinking skills • To allow students different mediums of expression • To encourage students to reflect upon their own life and life experiences

  4. ARCHIE BUNKER’S NEIGHBORHOOD • Divide classroom floor into unequal sized parts by taping the floors • Purposefully make one groups area larger than any other • Place money down for each group to work with giving more to the group with the largest area • Provide all groups with paper and pens to make buildings with giving the large area group the proper tools and the other groups inferior tools such as pens that do not work • Organize students into five groups • First to complete building a hospital school place of worship and five houses wins • Have discussion upon completion of game about how students felt about the game

  5. CLASS DISCUSSION • Have students write down what class they believe they belong to • Have class discussion as to why they thought they were a certain class • Religious affiliation • Lifestyle • Family history • Income • Education • Ask/discuss United States as a classless and egalitarian society • Ask if there is a difference between class, status, and lifestyle

  6. ARTICLE PRESENTATIONS • Divide class into groups of three or four • Have groups read different articles from Power and Culture: Essays on theAmerican Working Class • Have students write group reviews of chosen article • Have groups present articles and lead class discussions

  7. FIELD TRIP • Organize a field trip to nearby schools • Visit a school where the average student has a lower class status than the students at the home school • Visit a school where the average student has a higher class status than the students at the home school • Have students discuss differences they saw in the schools • Ask the students if parental income is related to the education of the child

  8. MOVIE DISCUSSION • Watch Titanic by James Cameron • Discuss how people from different classes were treated and how they acted • Discuss interactions between people of different classes

  9. WEB PAGES

  10. Resources Cultural Diversity Classism Website • http://www.uwrf.edu/college-of-education/student%20resources/cultural%20diversity%20classism.htm • University of Wisconsin at River Falls website • Links to • Classism National Coalition for the Homeless • Institute for Research on Poverty • National Center for Children in Poverty

  11. Workforce DevelopmentDealing with Classism • http://www.workforcedevelopmentgroup.com/news_twenty_six.html • A checklist for uncovering classism in organizations • Discusses • Jokes and slurs • Weekends and off hour events • Job expenses • Levelism

  12. CLASSISM WEBSITE • http://jillyfish.tripod.com/community/classism.html • Gives definition of classism • Tells where classism may be found • Housing • Health Care • Religion • Education • Reproduction

  13. RACE AND CULTURE CLASSISM • http://www.uvm.edu/~culture/site/frameset/frameset_classism.html • Quiz to test your level of classism • Tips on how to prevent classism • Guidelines on how to challenge classism

  14. CLASSISM: THE UNSPOKEN ISM • http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj11.21.96/articles/notes.html • An editorial on classism in America • Discusses lower standardized test scores in inner city schools • Points out the influences of Capitalism

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