Assignment:
Template for Life on the Color I in- The True Story of A White Roy Who Disrovend Ile Was Mack. Dy Gregory Howard Williams
1 As you mad, think about your own identity, and what determines who you are? How would you feel if your world was suddenly turned upside down and your own identityntatus was suddenly challenged or lost? How do you think it would change you and the way you see the world.
2 Use the following questions to guide your reading by writing a small conunemary to address these issues.
How do the issues of race emerge as the central component of the text?
Choose three of the central characters and think about how race affected there lives, was it different. the same, or not a factor?
Do you think the race of the reader will have an impact on how one views the story, in what ways will the difference manifest itself?
3. Choose an important passage from the book (approximately 40 lines) and explain the following:
a. Why do you think this passage important, how is it connected to the rest of the hook, and why did you choose this passage. and what does it reveal about the plot or character, or setting.
• Choose three issues from the book and discuss how the impacted the story, how they were resolved, and how these issues have changed since then.
i. Education
2 Family
Parenting
Poverty
s. Racial ConflieVCooperation
6 Racial Identity
Dating
IL Community Involvement
Athletics
Alcohol/Drugs
Response the below:
1. What propaganda techniques did the leader use to influence the outcome of the exercise? Which techniques do you see being used in society at large to support racism?
2. Participants in this exercise are exposed to discrimination for a short time; relate their behavior and performance to that of minority group members in our society who are exposed to discrimination for a lifetime.
3. From what you've seen in this film, who do you feel is responsible for the existence and elimination of racism in our society? The school? Your parents? Religious leaders? The government? The heads of major corporations? The legal system? You?
4. Participants in the exercise reacted in different ways to the unfairness of the authority figure. Identify the kinds of attempts made to cope with this situation and analyze the effectiveness of each in defeating the oppressor or lessening the pressure. Can you suggest something that might have worked better?
5. Why, in your opinion, didn't members of the designated minority groups defend each other as they were being verbally abused? Does this have any relevance to your understanding of some of the events that happened during the Holocaust?