Do you treat people equally? If you are a parent, do you favor one child over the other? Have you ever treated someone differently based upon appearance? There are a whole slew of things that make us different, and so many things that we have in common.
Respecting our differences.
Do you assume something about a person’s character if they have tattoos? What about body piercings? What about the type of clothes they wear or how they speak? What if you saw a disabled man or woman trying to get on the metro (bus), would you help him/her?
Do you treat people equally?
Aim: fluency based lesson: speaking, writing, and reading
Definition of: The Golden Rule: treating others the way you want to be treated.
Questionnaire
1. Is it ok to insult or make fun of people as long as they don't hear it? Why or why not.
2. What do you dislike most about the way people treat one another?
3. What do you think is Martin Luther King's message in his, "I Have A Dream Speech"?
4. Do you think racism exists?
4. Do you think racism exists?
5. Do you think people are afraid of differences sometimes?
6. What are some ways you can treat people lovingly and kindly?
Vocabulary
A put down
An insult
Respect
The Golden Rule
Positive traits
Characteristics
Negative traits
Personality
Anaphora (repeating words at the beginning of neighboring clauses, “I Have A Dream”, repeated eight times is an example, Anaphora is commonly used in speeches)
Alliteration (Device used most commonly in poetry, when the same consonants are repeated, “She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.” Alliteration is used for poetry mainly).
Fluency
Listening: Aretha Franklins’ “Respect” song
Writing: assignment
1) Have you ever been made fun of for something you couldn't change?
2) Have you ever had a Dream like the Dream that Dr. Martin Luther King Junior describes in his I Have A Dream Speech?
Writing: Dr. Martin Luther King uses Anaphora in his speech. By repeating the words, I Have A Dream. Write your own speech using starting each of your five sentences with, I Have A Dream……..
On the board (write on easel)
Do's and Don’ts list for treating people that are different from us with respect, identifying behaviors that are both positive and negative traits.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
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