Assignment:
link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/
Your mission is to critically analyze the film by comparing the concepts gained from the reading assignments with the actions shared in the film.
To do task:
1. Take notes while viewing the film.
2. The notes must be submitted with the assignment in suprete page .
3. Complete the worksheet I uttatched pdf file down on files.
4. Complete the writing assignment.
To look:
A Class Divided - Questionnaire
General Reactions
1. What did you learn?
2. What scene or scenes do you think you willstill remember a month from now
and why those scenes?
3. Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different
race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Impact of Discrimination
4. What did the children's' body language indicate about the impact of
discrimination?
5. How did the negative and positive labels placed on a group become selffulfilling prophecies?
6. In the prison seminar, one of the white women asserts that all people face some
kind of discrimination. Another woman challenges her, claiming that whites
can't really know what it's like to face discrimination every minute of every
day. What do you think?
7.Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise
should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be
harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination
might do?
Looking at the Structures that Nurture Bias:
1. What features did Elliott ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how
did those characteristics reflect stereotypes about blacks and whites?
2. How did Elliott's discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the
inferior group? How did she selectively interpret behavior to confirm the
stereotypes she had assigned?
3. It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher,
but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the
adults object?
Looking for Answers:
1.At recess, two of the boys from different groups get in a fight. Elliott asks the one who was teased if responding with violence made him feel better or made the teasing stop. What does the answer suggest about the use of violence as a political strategy? At the time, who was using violence for political purposes and why?
2. How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me
not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?