February
12
ELA B10: Feb 12 Non-visual minorities – better or worse?
- We had a short discussion today as an introduction to the topic highlighted by the movie they were about to view. We reviewed the fact that we’ve discussed recently a lot about the prejudice and racists attitudes towards several minority groups in our society – Black people in the states (predominately) and Japanese, East Indian, or Aboriginal peoples in Canada – but the focus shifted today to minority groups of people who are just as likely to face certain levels or discrimination but are not as visually apparent. In this regard, they may seem to blend in to their surroundings or society to a certain extent but there is always the potential around them that someone may have a prejudice against them, not based on skin colour, but other things just as unfair, such as their religion or sexual orientation.
- Students then began watching the movie School Ties, with Brandon Frasier who plays a Jewish quarter-back who is hired by an elite and private prep-school who otherwise excludes Jewish students from enrolling. He originally hides this area of his life from his new school mates, until it’s discovered and his friends quickly turn on him even though he seems to be the same honest guy they were originally drawn to prior to knowing. It’s a really great movie and I was so pleased to see (and hear) how well students were equally drawn to the story line. In particular, it was intriguing to me how Mike and John kept adding play-by-plays to what was going on in the movie but their comments were completely relevant and insightful! Impressive… lol how did that happen!?
See if this movie looks familiar to you.