Children's Rights and Labour:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/giving-voice-child-laborers-289.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/giving-voice-child-laborers-289.html
Unit Three: Socioeconomic Status (SES) versus "Class."
1. What is it? Where does this concept come from? Who does it affect and how?
Begin here for definitions and pictures for discussions:
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter9-social-stratification-in-the-united-states/
- http://www.apa.org/topics/socioeconomic-status/
- Use the above website for a definition and four articles to create Chalk and Talk from. Students will create the questions and the answers.
How privileged are you? http://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you#.jnmBjZYrG
Privilege walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5f8GuNuGQ
Privilege Walk:https://ginsberg.umich.edu/content/privilege-walk-activity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html
b. A look at our families:
Privilege Walk and Egg activity, finish with Social Class Exploration:
http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/social-class-exercises.aspx
c. A look at our schools: 8th Fire?
d. A look at our city (Tent city project, Lisa Helps, Street youth)
e. A look globally:
https://teachunicef.org/sites/default/files/documents/units-lesson-plans/shashas_story_full_unit_grades_9_to_12.pdf
Fieldtrip: Our Place
4. Guest Speakers: Jeremy Loveday, Bobby Arbess, Uvic Speaker Bureau.
5. Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness
(create Chalk and Talk class lesson as well as mini research from the following link)
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/pursuit-of-happyness-answers.html