Introducing Geography
Lesson Plan:
Consult map on line at www. Encarta.com.
View photos of the native peoples at www. National geographic.com for photos of India, Africa and South America.
1. Identify and label countries/continents on map worksheet
2. Identify and label capital cities (Bombay, Rio de Janeiro etc.)
3. Identify statistics on population in cities and smaller countries. Compare and discuss differences and similarities between urban and rural populations. Why the change and growth?
4. Recall on personal experiences in initial journal entry.
Lesson Plans Prior to Viewing of Film
*Selected from Lockhart and Shaw: Teaching Tolerance
Lesson Plan 1: Re-conceiving Notions*
Objectives: Create awareness of the kinds of assumptions or preconceived notions students hold about people in ethnic groups different from their own.
Materials Needed:
Copies of handout
Directions: Identify one specific assumption or preconceived notion you have had about people from the following groups.
Ethnic or cultural group
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I think people in this group….
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Indians
Africans
Chinese
Buddhists
Italians
Muslims
Explain how you became aware of this assumption or preconceived notion within yourself. Answer the following questions:
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- Where did your preconceived notions come from? Why do you hold it?
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- In what ways has your experience with people from this group confirmed your assumption?
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- How might stereotypes obscure differences between people of a specified ethnic group?
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- How might stereotypes obscure similarities between people of different ethnic groups?
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- How do these kinds of assumptions harm individuals? What opportunities might you have to benefit form associations with people of other ethnic groups if you did not hold preconceived notions about them?
Lesson Plan 2: Writing about Racial Identity*
Objectives:
Develop a perspective on the role of racial identity in people's self image.
Analyze the influences of racial identity in various aspects of people's lives.
Material needed: Pen and paper
Directions: Students are instructed to write a four paragraph autobiography based on their racial identities, answering questions about ways it has influenced them (role it has in everyday life, in social activities, in school, do they benefit from this identity or do they suffer or miss out) Discuss in large group.
Lesson Plans Post Film
Lesson Plan 1: Class Discussion - Salaam Bombay:
I. The importance of family and home
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- recalling prior knowledge: refer to student family and home
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A. Krishna
1. Why does he need 500 rupees?
2. What are his relations with his brother like? Why does he set fire to his bike?
1. Drifting all over India
2. No friends
3. A drug addict
1. The sweet sixteen
2. Her relationship to her mother; Is the mother a good mother?
3. Her father (Baba) lives on his wife's prostitution. How does this affect her conception of men?
II.
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Comradeship and Betrayal
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A. Krishna's relationships with the other street kids
B. Bombay and its social problems of poverty, drug dealing, prostitution and class difference
Lesson Plan Post Film 2: Central Station
Vocabulary Words and Themes:
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- age-difference
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- transportation
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- illiteracy
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- letter-writing
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- loneliness
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- loss-of-mother
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- missing-father
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- on-the-road
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- procession
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- railway-station
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- teacher
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- aging
Students will brainstorm terms and use them to introduce various short essays reflecting on film and personal experiences.
Lesson Plan 2:
Objective: Students are asked to apply and refer to prior discussions and films to evaluate how they have evolved in their conception of diverse people.
Materials needed: pen and paper
Directions: Discuss some of the things that you think are necessary in order to effectively understand and work in a community with a culture very unlike your own. Think about what kind of preparation you might have to undertake if you were going to live in another culture for an extended period of time and hoped to have a meaningful and effective experience. For example, imagine that this summer we were going to send you far away to write a report say on the attitudes and behaviors of students in ________________. What would you need to do in order to do a good job of it? Would you prepare differently if we were going to send you to East LA, or Tallahassee, FL, or Williamsburg, NY?