Bifocal - by Eric Walters and Deborah Ellis

Grade: 7 - 10^[1]

Curriculum Connection

• Identify various racial, cultural, and/or socio-economic groups that have been targets of inequality and intolerance
• Discuss the components which lead to intolerance
• Identify a way to address inequality and intolerance in their own personal lives

ACTIVITIES

1. Ask student to orally list several incidences in which they have been the recipients or the perpetrators of racial, cultural, and/or socioeconomic intolerance.
2. Ask students to discuss why they were recipients or perpetrators of this intolerance.
3. Have students research and list individuals or groups in history who have either been the recipients or perpetrators of racial, cultural, and/or socioeconomic intolerance.
4. Get students to write a proposal or develop a hypothesis on how to stop one culture from dominating another. Is that even possible?

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