Historical BackgroundTo Kill a Mockingbird

Major Events from 1863-1955

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Jim Crow Laws• KKK• Lynching• The Great Depression• Major Court Cases

Unit VocabularyStereotype

Using images of people, events or issues to make broad generalizations or oversimplified statements.

Think of a candy mold.

In order to easily “know” things about people we tend to fit them into “molds” or categories.

This creates an “us” versus “them” mentality.

Unit VocabularyPrejudice

Forming positive or negative opinions based on preconceived stereotype images or thoughts rather than accurate and complete information.

This is “pre-judgment”-judging before we know.

Can be based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religious belief, age, etc. Steve Rosenfield Photography

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Action that denies rights to people based on prejudice. This includes treatment of an individual or group based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or social category.

Types of discrimination include age, disability, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, health related, etc.

We discriminate when we act on our beliefs and opinions.

Discrimination

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A system of classifying humans by distinct physical characteristics, such as, skin color, eye color, hair, and facial features that have changed and varied over time.

Race

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Is “socially constructed” meaning that is created by human thought and interaction.

There is no biological basis for racial categories. Humans do not have separate subspecies or races the way some animals do.

Unit VocabularyRacism

Noun: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Many modern sociologists, researchers, and advocates define racism as “Prejudice + Power”

DO NOW:Take out your vocabulary from last class and review the definitions quietly for a few minutes. Do you have any questions/concerns? If

you were absent, extra worksheets are in the

hanging file folder.

DATE

REMINDERS

AGENDA:Finish unit vocabularyReview Mini-Research ProjectAssign group topicsWork on project.

OUR LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY:

Explore unit vocabulary for To Kill a Mockingbird and explore history of slavery leading up to the Jim Crow era in which the novel takes place.

HW:

LAST CLASS:Began TKAM unit and vocab.NEXT CLASS:Begin mini-research project

Get any necessar

y supplies for 2nd

semester.

Jan. 14, 2015

Create vocabulary sentences

Noun: the state or quality of being unequal; disparity.

Synonym: imbalance, inequity, variation, inconsistency

Inequality

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Unit VocabularyJustice

The quality of being just, unbiased, or fair.

Ex: In a court of law, the judge, jury, and prosecutor use evidence and reasoning to determine guilt or innocence.

However, when things are unequal it is often seen as an injustice.

Ex: Two people being sentenced differently for the same crime.

the courage to take action for moral reasons despite the risk of adverse consequences

Moral = concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character

Moral Courage

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