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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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CLASSISMFor Seniors Adelaide Shultz Benjamin Towe ED 301 SEC 02
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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