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Activities

Week One - Civil Rights Movement

Bad driver. Math wizard. Model minority. In this hilarious and insightful talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her way to buy rice.

Week Two - Human Rights 

Watching the news, it seems like ethnic divides are ever-deepening. But how can we solve these complicated problems when each side lives in fear of the other? The answer is simple, argues Syrian-American poet Amal Kassir - it starts with, “What’s your name?”

Human Rights Vlog
Human Rights Vlog Rubric

Week Three - Stereotype/Privilege

We are really good at forming judgements of other people and jump to conclusions based on how they look, sound, by their last names and by the color of their skin. But imagine if you could develop a simple tactic to challenge the assumptions that limit your life?

Stereotype Podcast
Stereotype Quilt

Watch the four ted talks, choose one, and record a podcast about it.

Week Four - Presentations

“The single story creates stereotypes…and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

© 2019 by Andrea Evans & Chantéa Williams

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