AGE RAGE

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AGE RAGE

• THE FEAR OF YEARS
• by herb lucas
• ED 301.02
• Diversity Technology Lesson
• Power Point WWW

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OUR DIVERSE RESOURCES UNIT

• Explorations for Mr. Lucas 11th graders
• a mini-lesson concerning age bias
• part one of an 11 part diversity unit

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Youre never to young or too old to live.

• Legislature commands citizens to obedience.
• The laws say we cannot disciminate because of
  age.
• Law has no body.
• People--you and me--are why we need legislature.

NO YOUTH
NO OLD FOLKS
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Objectives
to bring the seedling of concept to sound
rooted vitality of maturation.

• Describe age bias
• relate age bias to different maturational
  perspectives
• illustrate benefits of inclusion and acceptance
• our responsibilities

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MATERIALS , PLEASE..
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Im sorry. We need someone born this century.
Have you thought about volunteering at the
funeral home? employer.

• OLD COOTS
• SILVER-BACKS
• OVERQUALIFIED
• WOBBLIES
• PRUNEHILDAS
• MOULDY OLDIES

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Were looking for someone with more
experience.is that placenta on your
chin?employer.

• Whippersnappers
• know-it-alls
• know-nothings
• shut up and learn something!
• Grow up!
• What do you know about it? Youre a kid.

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF AGE
BIAS

• NO ONE, IRREGARDLESS OF THEIR LACK OF YEARS, OR
  THEIR SURPLUS OF YEARS, SHOULD BE DISCRIMINATED
  AGAINST IN TERMS OF THEIR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND
  PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.Mr. Lucas.

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DO YOU DISCRIMINATE FOR AGE?
Do you view Mr.Lucas as a dinosaur, and
irrelevant?
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Sometimes the old becomes new

• Literature and media is abundant in tales of
  elderly tortoises outrunning younger hares.

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ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE ELDER APPRECIATION

• Write a half-page response about how an older
  person has effected your life.
• What older (past middle-age) person would you
  like to be like when you reach that age? Write a
  few sentences, and then be prepared for large
  group discussion.
• Research and make a creative chart displaying 6
  people who achieved something after age 55.

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ACTIVITIES CONTINUED

• BE A STAR! Role play The entire class is over
  55. Arrange the classroom into sections of a
  rest home, and group students in sections. Role
  play a rest home.
• BE A STAR! Role play Now turn the rest home in
  to a cruise ship full of 55 and over passengers,
  some single, some married. Think of this as a
  geriatric LOVE BOAT tv show.

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Web resources to experience bias against the
aging

• http//plato.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/young/shakes/
  KL/grp1/walter.html

A study of King Lear
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More WWW resources

• http//www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa516.html
• website about gramma moses
• http//www.graypanthers.org/

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DO THE OLD FOLKS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST YOU,
TODAYS YOUTH?
We all forget where we came from.
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ACTIVITIES TO EXAMINE REVERSE AGE BIAS why run
from young?

• Imagine you are the school principal. How do you
  view your students? Write a one page response.
• Select acurrent topic. You are congress debating
  a current issue in congress. Debate issue in
  class as group.

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Activities continued

• Compile your results from the last debate. Now
  debate the same issue as if you were 30-99 year
  old politicians.
• Compare your results. Large group discussion of
  findings.

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DISTRUST OF TIMES PLAN
We forget we are but caterpillars, each of us
with our own particular chosen thread to weave.
BUT REMEMBER...
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You were me, I hope to be you.

• If youre old, you once were young,
• If youre young, then you hope to grow old.
• AT WHAT AGE DO WE FORGET OUR LIFES JOURNEY?

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SUMMARY
BIAS OF ONES years, by our own peers, is as
common as rain--Oh! The sweet smell spring
rain! Will the older folks make concessions
toward the less fortunate. Yes. Will the
students who have matriculated through the
class, appy their values against we shall see .