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 * **Unit Plan**
 * **Assessment to gauge student needs**

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 * **Student sample**

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 * ** Student sample assessment **
 * **Assessment to foster self-direction and metacognition**
 * **Student support document(s)**






 * **Student discussion prompt(s)**

1. Some people argue that racism is primarily a belief or attitude and that anyone who unfairly judges another based on race is racist. Others argue that racism is about action and systemic discrimination, so only those with the power to act, and not those who are the targets of discrimination, can be racist. Which argument do you find convincing and why? Is there a difference between racism and prejudice? If so, what is the difference?

2. Consider the following definitions. What are the differences between them? How do they compare with the dictionary definition of "racism"? How might some people benefit and others be hurt from the use of one definition over another? traits with the belief that one race is superior to another." group because of skin color." cultural relations that ensures that one racial group has and maintains power and privilege over all others in all aspects of life. Individual participation in racism occurs when the objective outcome of behavior reinforces these relations, regardless of the subjective intent." A Developmental Approach, (Teachers College Press, 1997)
 * "Racism couples the false assumption that race determines psychological and cultural
 * --A World of Difference project of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith
 * "Racism is any attitude, action, or institutional structure which subordinates a person or
 * --U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1970
 * "We define racism as an institutionalized system of economic, political, social, and
 * --Carol Brunson Phillips and Louise Derman-Sparks in Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism:

3. One of the goals of the civil rights movement was to ensure equal opportunity for every U.S. citizen, irrespective of race. When the civil rights movement began, the legal system did not grant the same rights to blacks and other minorities as it did to whites. Today, those laws have been changed, leading some to argue that the U.S. has achieved a level playing field for all. Is the field level? Is success based exclusively on merit and luck, or is race-based "privilege" still a factor? How was affirmative action policy crafted to address issues of privilege? Has it been successful?

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 * **Facilitation materials and resources**
 * 1) **You can use this interactive persuasion map to help you plan your PSA** : @http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
 * 2) Means of Persuasion Handout
 * 3) How To Animoto
 * 4) How to create a movie in Windows Movie Maker
 * 5) Podcasting Instructions
 * 6) Elluminate Software/meeting
 * 7) ** More information on PSA’s **