Diversity

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Diversity

• Stacey C. Burgess
• ED 301-02

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Why?

• The High school is providing diversity workshops
  for grades 9-12. The administration wishes for
  you, as the teacher, to include diversity lessons
  in your classroom. The lessons herein are for
  9/10th graders.

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Table of Contents

• General diversity web links/activities
• Age diversity web links/activities
• Belief system web links/activities
• Social class web links/activities
• Exceptionalities web links/activities
• Disabilities web links/activities
• Gender web links/activities
• Language web links
• Race/ethnicity web links
• Race/ethnicity/language activities
• Sexual orientation web links/activities
• Teaching resources web links

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General Diversity Web Links

• Foundation for Middle East Peace
• Facts About Employment Discrimination
• School Funding Equity
• Diversity Journal
• Diversity World

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General Activities

• Question What does diversity mean? Students will
  answer this question in their writing journals.
• Once students have a working theory of diversity
  they will list what groups are considered a
  diverse group.
• Once they have what groups of people are
  considered diverse, we will expand on the
  question and ask what makes that group diverse in
  their opinion.
• Students will get into a group and share their
  answers to see if their class mates feel that the
  same things make a group diverse.
• Finally the class will be brought back together
  and further examination of the issue will be done
  in a class discussion.

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Age Web Links

• Closer look at Teen Pregnancy? this is an
  important topic for 9th and 10th graders due to
  the fact several of their peers will become
  pregnant.
• Advocates for Youth? A site for teens about
  teens. Deals with a lot of issues that come up in
  High school sex, drugs, and alcohol.
• Types of age discrimination? to show that teens
  arent the only age discriminated against. Also,
  teens should respect their elders.

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Age Web Links continued

• AOA?Some information about the elderly.
• Divorce and Adoption? this site provides
  information on nontraditional family life.

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Age Activities

• Have students write and act out a skit in which
  one student is an elderly man/woman and a couple
  of other students represent the younger
  generation. Have students answer questions such
  as these in their skit
• How are the elderly treated by younger
  generation?
• If the skit takes place in the work place how
  might forced early retirement affect the elderly?
• After the students have put on the skit the rest
  of the class will do a free write on what they
  just witnessed.

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Continued

• Have students read selected sections of Go Ask
  Alice aloud and then have a class discussion on
  drugs.
• Watch Riding in Cars with Boys and write an
  informal essay on how the movie would be
  different if the action had taken place in 2003.
• Listen to Pinks Family Portrait and then have
  a class discussion regarding the lyrics.
• Take students to the library and have them
  research teen alcoholism and write a pamphlet for
  a rehab center.

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Beliefs Web Links

• The Sephardic-Moroccan Page? This page discusses
  the art of Henna, which is a popular skin
  ornamentation technique currently. This site
  will provide information on who uses Henna,the
  real reason women use Henna and why.
• Prayer in Schools?controversial topic regarding
  all religions.
• Native American Spirituality?A topic that should
  be considered when learning about early American
  history and reading early American literature.
• Japanese Buddhism
• Hindu Universe

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Beliefs Activities

• Have a debate over Religion in schools. Students
  will be divided up into groups. Each group will
  have a Pro Religion side and a Con Religion side.
  Each side will have to be presented in a
  civilized manner.
• Have students get into groups of three and
  research a religion and give a presentation to
  the class on their findings.
• Read excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank and
  then open the floor for class discussion.

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Continued

• Watch a portion of Schindlers List and then have
  students free write their responses to the film.
• Read portions of Wind Wolf Woman as a way to
  address Native American spirituality.

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Social Class Web Links

• ERIC Digest 83 - Poverty and Learning?website
  with stats for poverty in the United States.
• Middle Class America - America's Hope for
  Tomorrow?a very Pro Middle class website.
• Social Class?British stand point on caste and
  some interesting links.
• An Overview of Social Inequality?some very nice
  graphs.
• SOCIAL CLASS AND DISABILITY?information on class
  in the United States.

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Social Class Activities

• Students will Read The Good Earth by Pearl S.
  Buck and when finished will create a Poster to
  demonstrate what changed in Wang Lung, the main
  character, when he shifted classes.
• Based on this novel students will do a free write
  on the different social classes presented in the
  novel.
• Students then will write a compare and contrast
  paper on the social classes demonstrated in the
  book and in the United States.

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Continued

• Students, following the book, will fill out a
  graphic organizer explaining which character
  belongs to what social class in the book.
• Students will do a journal entry. Journal
  Prompt Why do we associate poverty with social
  class?

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Exceptionalities Web Links

• The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative
  Children
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN HOME
  PAGE
• The Gifted Child Society
• Welcome to GT-World!
• Gifted Resources Organization Page

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Exceptionalities Activities

• Watch A Beautiful Mind.
• Have students complete a free write on the movie.
• Journal entry. Prompt What do you think it
  means to be gifted?
• Have students list famous people who are gifted
• Have students research one famous gifted person
  and have them write an essay on that person.

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Disabilities Web Links

• Federation for Children with Special Needs
• ED385095 1995-08-00 Academic Interventions for
  Children with Dyslexia Who Have Phonological Core
  Deficits. ERIC Digest E539.
• Special Education/IDEA
• COSERRC Menu
• What's It Like To Have Add?

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Disabilities Activities

• Have a guest speaker come in to discuss learning
  disabilities with students
• Have half of the class read the book After the
  Dancing Days and the other half read The Alfred
  Summer.
• Students will participate in reading group
  situation
• Each group will create a poster about their
  books.
• Each group will write a summary of the novel.
• Each group will elect representatives,
  distribute the summary to the other half of the
  class, and give a short presentation on their
  posters.

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Gender Web Links

• Men's issues
• Gender Shock
• Women's/Gender Studies
• Chicana Feminist Homepage
• Gender Inequality

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Gender Activities

• Free write on what, to the students, is a male or
  female job.
• Have a speaker come in and discuss gender issues.
• Research how women were treated in the 18th and
  19th centuries.
• Have girls read The River by Gery Paulson boys
  read a book The Witch of Blackbird Pond by
  Elizabeth George Speare.
• After reading the books students will be pulled
  back together and asked what the differences
  between the two narrations are. (aside from male
  female.)

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Race/Ethnicity Web Links

• Latino Sports Legends
• African American Resources
• Arab Academy
• Celtic Connection
• Welcome to India

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Language Web Links

• Bias-Free Language
• Helping the World Communicate
• Ensenada Spanish Language School
• National Directory of Early Foreign Language
• Language, Culture, and Diversity

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Activities for Language and Ethnicity

• Language and ethnicity go together therefore, a
  student needs to pick a culture and research the
  native language and culture and write a research
  paper.
• Watch foreign film.
• Take notes while watching, observing the various
  cultural differences.
• Read Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
• Graphic organizer on the differences between life
  as a Chinese American woman and life as a Chinese
  woman.
• Read Le Petit Prince
• Discuss book during class.

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Continued

• Create a travel brochure on a particular culture.
  Stating the countries that partake in this
  culture and language.
• Make a list of languages that have influenced
  American English and on the other side of the
  sheet list some words that have been borrowed
  from those other languages.
• Have a guest speaker come in and lecture about a
  certain culture.

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Sexual Orientation Web Links

• Department of Energy Gay,Lesbian, Bisexual
  employees
• Lesbian
• Journal of Gender Law Policy
• Sexual Orientation Law
• Teen Sexuality

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Sexual Orientation Activities

• Read Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle.
• Free write right after the brother passes away to
  capture students gut response to the novel.
• Discuss the themes involved in the book by
  writing a thematic essay.
• Reading Journal Discuss how the novel is either
  stereotypical or not.
• Media studyhow does the media treat sexuality.
  Create one of the following a media montage
  (i.e. music, movies, television, and book clips)
  an essay, or a speech.

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Teaching Resources Web Links

• Teaching Tolerance
• Learn in Freedom
• Gentle Teaching
• Cultural Diversity/Multicultural Tools Activities
  Workbook
• Programs for Educational Opportunities