Tuesday, October 11

This Week's Questions:

• What is racism and how does it play out in today's society?
• Is racism natural?
• How might it end?

Agenda

1. Starter 10.11:  Reflect on your experience yesterday on the field trip.  What are some things you learned and/or felt during the course of the day?  How do you feel about the Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day issue?

2. Debrief Field Trip

3. Establish ground rules for our discussions on race

• Be "Willing to be Disturbed"
• Oops/Ouch
• Speak your truth while listening with an open heart to others’

4.  Four Corners

• In America, everyone has equal opportunity to lead a successful, happy life.
• Social class is more relevant than race in determining someone’s likelihood of success.
• In order to combat racism, we should all try to be colorblind.
• Affirmative action is reverse discrimination

(Affirmative Action refers to a policy or program providing advantages for groups who have experienced historical discrimination with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, and social welfare.)

5. Go over this week's work and seminar prep packet  

• Seminar Monday!
• Make a copy of the Google Doc.  This will be where you compile your thoughts of the week as seminar prep.
• If you prefer a paper copy, I will print it for you, and you can attach additional papers as necessary.

6.  The Daily Show: “The R-word” Samantha Bee and Jessica Williams

7. Establish definitions for some terms key to our discussion on race.

Key Terms Powerpoint

8.  Reading: Josiah Strong (1885)

Fill in the space on the seminar prep packet under “Response to readings”

Honors:  Reminder to read this week's assigned reading if you have not done so already.

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