A Class Divided was an experiment conducted by a third-grade teacher named Jane Elliot. When Martin Luther King Jr was shot, one day later Jane Elliot knew teaching her third-grade class that discrimination was wrong, wasn’t such an easy task but a difficult challenge since their parents raised them to believe discrimination of the blacks was the right thing to do. According to the video uploaded by Jshapplet, Jane Elliot stated on the first day of the experiment that: It just might be interesting to judge people today by the color of their eyes, blue eyed people should be on top the first day here, I mean the blue-eyed people are the better people in this room (Jshapplet). Mrs. Elliot leads the children to believe that those who has blue eyes…
In White Lies, the author narrates a social story of being different through two fifth graders—Arpi and Conie. Arpi is a Lebanese girl who has pronunciation problems and always get corrected by her teacher. She believes that her pronunciation problems make her different from other, and she is upset by the differences. However, the arrival of new girl named Connie cheers her up because Connie is albino. The arrival of Connie make Arpi less different from others.…
Jane Elliott’s Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiment is one that many teachers would be scared to try. At the time, the experiment was smartly planned; it took place the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Segregation had been a topic fought over for centuries, but kids didn’t even realize that they were being racist. Especially for a small Iowa town, Jane Elliott’s experiment would have a crucial influence on students because they were exposed to a life with primarily white people. Today, Jane’s experiment would not be allowed because of strict school rules and worried parents.…
The Bluest Eye has been challenged several times in the United States, since the novel was first published in 1970. The most recent banning occurred in 2014, at Legacy High School, because the novel was deemed a “badbook” (“Banned”). Educators often use their personal opinions to justify their…
Despite the racism and degradation in the past United States, the country has overcome battles regarding racism and equality. Within the book Coming of Age in Mississippi and the Freedom Riders documentary, resources show how the Civil Rights Movement changed America for a better future to come. Race shows a person’s culture. It allows one to dive into someone’s past, but, unfortunately, it develops assumptions.…
In the first day of school, Michael had scored zero for the quiz that given by his class teacher because he did not study those knowledge before. In school, Michael had no White friends except for Sean Junior Tuohy because of his body colour;…
In the short story, racial segregation began from the misuse term “Caucasian” at Laurel’s school, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School. The school is located in the South suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, where there are very few whites who lives there in the East coast. In fact, there is only one white student who is enrolled at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School; a boy name Dennis. Based on the history of the time and location “Brownies” was written in many people had little interaction with Caucasians, in this case, the students at Laurel’s elementary school. The troop and their classmates saw “Whites [as] baby pigeons: real and existing, but rarely seen or thought about” (Parker 179). With the comparison made between baby pigeons and white people, this illustrates that the Brownie girls never experience being around white people as much. For this reason, the children did not know the meaning of the term “Caucasian” or how the term is used correctly in a sentence. Thus, the children made fun…
The third grade students were separated into two groups: blue eyes and brown eyes. Both blue group had a day of being superior and another day of being treated similar to African Americans at that time. The children who were once going to school as best friends and in harmony, had…
It seemed so easy for the first group of children “on top” to find things to blame on the inferior group. It was almost automatic that the children in the inferior group to be offended or feel badly when called “brown eyes.” I didn 't think they would react quite so quickly and feel so bad right away. The blue-eyed children were mean and found lots of ways to discriminate against the brown eyed children. However once the brown eyed children were “on top” the terrible feeling about themselves seemed to diminish rather quickly, and I think since they knew how it felt to be on the inferior side they were not as mean and the first group of children that were “on top.” The children that participated in the experience learned a very valuable lesson and were able to carry these values with them through adulthood.…
Freedom Writers is a great movie that truly showcases many schools around the world. The started out the same dating back to the 1850’s but many schools are starting to overcome segregation. Even though we are not there yet, we are working as a whole to get…
When I first read the title a Class Divided; the first thought that came to my mind was another story about Blacks and Whites being separated. I really had no idea that what I was about to see and read would be a learning lesson like one I had never had before.…
On third grade, a man with a tie, went to the classroom and told the students that according to his assessment the students have to take a special tests to determine if they were gifted, which means if they had natural abilities , their own talent. Then the professor told the students to get off of their seats and leave the classroom. On his fourth grade after a boy told him that the principal demanded him to deliver his parents a letter that explained them that he was suspended from school for agitating violence ,which is the state of agitation or turbulent change or development. On his fifth grade, a lady told him that the CAT and DOG could run, but he asked himself if he was writing cat and dog on the board. Then the lady said that he did not have to be worry if he spelled wrong he just had to do the best that he could. On sixth grade a lady turn his chair to face the wall, but the other students chair face the teacher and the boy was in this position for the rest of the year they never call him anything, they never said a word, but the problem was that the boy never said anything…
According to the book, Looking Out, Looking In, self-concept is the relatively stable set of perceptions that we hold of ourselves. Quite simply, it is who we think we are and how we view ourselves as a whole; physically and emotionally, as well as the values, roles, talents, likes, dislikes, etc. that give us a sense of who we are. Our age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical abilities/disabilities, culture, ethnicity, and gender are the factors that form the foundation of who we are, and they therefore establish the base of our self-concept. As stated by Looking Out, Looking In, our self-concept is also largely shaped by others through reflected appraisal; which is how we believe others see us, and through social comparison; which is how we compare with others. Reflected appraisal forms our views of ourselves and provides evidence that these views are correct, while social comparison does this by allowing us to measure ourselves compared to others. These are essential to building our self-concept because a person, for instance, cannot consider himself to be smart unless people have told him either directly or indirectly that he is smart (reflected appraisal), or unless he is comparatively smarter than the people around him (social comparison). Through these two processes of reflected appraisal and social comparison, this person will then have a self-concept of his intelligence; this is a key way of how we form a self-concept of all of our attributes and characteristics.…
I observed Mr. Dave’s pre-k class at Montclair pre-school. I arrived at the classroom at 8:00 am to accessed the classroom as well to speak to Mr. Dave. We reviewed the day’s plan as I helped him clean up. While cleaning around the room I noticed how colorful the room was. There were: banners of letters and numbers hanging on the wall, as well as a large alphabet carpet on the floor for the kids to sit on, toys to play with and books to read. As the children arrived, they removed their belongings and placed them in the cubbies. Afterwards, they grabbed their name tags and set their lunchboxes on the lunchbox table. I played with the kids until class started at 9:00…
The filmmaker shows the progress of SNCC, and SCLC, and the Civil Rights Movement, as they fought for equality in the United States. As a whole they met nonviolent, and hostile hurdles, but persevered all obstacles to defeat segregation and earn…