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We Are United Have you seen the new edition of
Junior Exposure? It talks about discrimination.
Unfortunately, many childrenhave experienced
some form of discrimination. The children who
wrote this issue felt better after talking
about their experiences, and felt that they
understood each other better.
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"I Have a Dream"

• On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr.,
  delivered his
• famous "I Have a Dream" speech to more than
  200,000
• people attending the March on
• Washington. The demonstrators
• came together to demand the
• right to vote and to have
• equal opportunities for African
• Americans and to stop racial
• discrimination.

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What do you think his dream was? Talk to your
partner.

• Use one word to describe what his dream was
  about.
• Do you think his
• dream has been
• realized?
• How did you feel
• when you were
• watching this speech?

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Equality

• What does it mean to you?
• Use it in a sentence.
• state of being equal rights, treatment,
  quantity, or value equal to all others in a
  specific group

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Equality .

• What does it look like?
• What does it smell like?
• What does it sound like?
• What does it taste like?
• What does it feel like?

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A Poem If Equality Were Food

• If equality were food,
• It would look like chocolate cake with ice cream
  and cherries.
• It would taste like hamburgers, ice cream and
  mangoes.
• It would feel like a kiwi fruit or a potato.
• It would sound like a Slurpy drink with a straw.
• It would smell like bananas and ginger.And there
  would be an equal slice of cake for everyone.

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Discrimination

• Discrimination is the opposite of equality.
• What does it mean? Talk to your partner.
• treating people differently through prejudice 
• unfair treatment of one person or group, usually
  because of prejudice about race, ethnicity,
  culture, age, religion, sexuality, or gender.

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These children experienced discrimination because
of their culture.
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Do You Know Someone Who Has Been Discriminated
Against?

• Because of their race
• Because of ethnicity or culture
• Because of their age
• Because of their religion
• Because they are a boy/girl
• Because they are gay

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If Discrimination Were Food

• What does it look like?
• What does it smell like?
• What does it sound like?
• What does it taste like?
• What does it feel like?

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Read the Issue of Junior Exposure with your
partner.Now, you write! Write a poemIf
Equality Were FoodIf Discrimination Were
FoodorWrite a story Do you want to write
about an experience relating to equality or
discrimination?