Creating+and+Presenting

The context for this unit of work will be **'Discrimination'.** The texts we will be using are a combination of a documentary entitled 'Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes, a film 'Crash' and a collection of short stories by Archie Weller 'Going Home Stories'.
 * The whole idea behind this unit is to use other movies/stories/documentaries as a springboard for you to write your OWN creative piece on discrimination. We are NOT analysing the film or stories.**


 * 'Crash' synopsis:** Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters. A police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

//With King shot just the day before in Memphis, Elliott encouraged her third-graders to discuss how something so horrible could happen.// //"I finally said, ‘Do you kids have any idea how it feels to be something other than white in this country?’ "// //The children shook their heads and said they wanted to learn, so Elliott set the rules. Blue-eyed children must use a cup to drink from the fountain. Blue-eyed children must leave late to lunch and to recess. Blue-eyed children were not to speak to brown-eyed children. Blue-eyed children were troublemakers and slow learners.// //Within 15 minutes, Elliott says, she observed her brown-eyed students morph into youthful supremacists and blue-eyed children become uncertain and intimidated.// //Brown-eyed children "became domineering and arrogant and judgmental and cool," she says. "And smart! Smart! All of a sudden, disabled readers were reading. I thought, ‘This is not possible, this is my imagination.’ And I watched bright, blue-eyed kids become stupid and frightened and frustrated and angry and resentful and distrustful. It was absolutely the strangest thing I’d ever experienced."// http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
 * 'Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes' documentary:** After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, school teacher [|**Jane Elliott**] wanted to teach her third-grade class about racism. Rather than a lengthy discussion about it, she decided to show the 8-year-olds what racism is all about in a famous "experiment":
 * //You can watch the documentary by going to this link -//**


 * Archie Weller, 'Going Home Stories':** A collection of short stories, most concerned with contemporary Aboriginal life and the experience of characters such as Herbie.



[|DISCRIMINATION words.docx]

Using the vocabulary within the document, place each word into different categories - for example, you might have Emotional, Social, Physical, Group or Inidividuals as different categories, and you need to decide why that word belongs in that category.