January
28
ELA B10: Jan 28 Intro Equality Unit…
- Another semester begins and I have the pleasure of having the Grade tens for their B10 English course! We started with a look at their unit outline and a brief bit of history from me on my style of teaching English.
- We watched a few videos that focused on racial actions or stereotypes as a motivational set.
- We discussed and watched an interesting video about a social experiment an elementary teacher did just after the death of Martin Luther King. Her experiment is now famous, titled “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes”. She found that by segregating the students in her elementary classroom and assigning a value to one and discriminating the other, it actually affected their test scores and personality behaviours.
- This started a good discussion surrounding their ideas of race or some of the recent issues in the news lately, such as the Aboriginal father who left his daughters to freeze outside. We also talked a bit about the theory that there is no such thing as race, other than the human race. All these things were just an introduction to the topic and meant to draw their interest and prior knowledge.
Fast forward this video (if you want) to 3:20 into the video to see the portion where they do the social experiment with little children. The test – to see which doll they would choose, a Black doll or a White one. You’ll be surprised … and a little saddened.