PERCEPTIONS WE HOLD OF OTHERS THAT POSITIVELY AND MOST NEGATIVELY AFFECT SOCIETY
Opening ourselves: 1 -Willing to be disturbed
1- This piece allows students to question how they perceive themselves, each other, and those around them. It encourages students to be active thinkers and listeners when faced with newness.
Additional Recommended Sources: 1- Corona by Bushra Rehman (Skin, The Old Italian) 2 - Chinese New Year by Ed Lin 3 - 9/11 India by Mira Nair 4 - Declaration of Human Rights 5 - Monkeysphere http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
Essential Questions: 1.What shapes and defines how we think of ourselves? 2. How can one grow their Monkeysphere? 3. What is the Monekysphere? How do I relate to this and how does my society relate to it as well? (Examining response to world issues through both objective and subjective data.) 4. Is it possible to expand the Monkesphere? Is it important to expand one’s Monkeysphere? 5. What does it mean for one to be willing to be disturbed? 6. What shapes and defines how we think of others? 7. What creates, contributes to societal issues? 8. How do deep histories shape who we are and inform cultural narrative? 9. How do invisible systems drive identities and cultural literacies? 10. How do people become racialized? How do people experience erasure of identity? Who does the erasing? 11. How do we eliminate perpetuation of oppression and appropriation of identity?
Identities: 2- Not the 'right' kind of gay 3 - Negotiating Asian American identity through portraiture
2 -Here, Radio Rookies complicates identity and how that identity fits within the larger society schema. 3- Famous Asian American artists complicate and declare their identities through their reflection and art.
Vocabulary: Conversation Social Capital Identity Intergenerational Conflict Monkeysphere Institution / System Cultural Appropriation
Change: 4 - Why I quit the klan 5 - What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation?
4 -Journalist Studs Terkel examines the identity transformation of C. P. Ellis from Durham chapter president of the KKK to civil rights advocate. 5 - This piece complicates students ideas of cultural appropriation and asks them to examine positive change that could happen around the idea of appropriation.
Assessments:Students will work to discover their identities and how those identities are informed by intergenerational conflict, societal conflict, and institutions. Below are three suggested assessments. 1 - Identity Map: Students will work to identify themselves in order to work in order to work towards a greater understanding of themselves and the world around them. 2 - Where I Am From: Students will write about their perceptions of themselves and the perceptions others have of them. 3 - KCK Radio Blog: Interview a parent as a part of a radio blog in order to investigate intergenerational conflict and its impact on student identity.