discriminate against others. The movie we watched in class‚ A CLASS DIVIDED shows how fast people change and discriminate. When Jane Elliot‚ a Riceville‚ Iowa teacher‚ separates her students into units by the color of their eyes‚ things quickly get out of hand. Some of the main ideas that surprised me included how much control an authoritative figure has‚ how fast the children turned and how students lived up to expectations. To start out‚ Jane Elliot was a loving teacher who treated everyone respectfully
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A Class Divided Racism‚ a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement‚ usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others (“racism”)‚ has been a significant problem for decades. In the 1960’s‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a U.S. civil rights leader‚ was assassinated‚ which lead to an upsurge in animosity between the Caucasian and African American people. Jane Elliot‚ a teacher at Community
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“A Class Divided” The video “A Class Divided” was about an exercise in discrimination. Jane Elliot‚ a 3rd grade teacher in an all-white town in Iowa‚ decided to teach her students about discrimination and the effects that it has on people. She started the exercise by asking her class about national brotherhood week‚ what it means to them‚ and if there are people in America who are not treated like brothers. Her students told her yes‚ that black and Indians were not treated as brothers. With
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Forum #2 (Chapters 2 and 3): How did the Atlantic slave trade began‚ and how did the slave trade within Africa compare/contrast to the later slave trade with the Europeans? In order to operate huge tracts of land as effective farms‚ the white land owners of the New World‚ which included what later became America‚ the Caribbean‚ and South America‚ sought slaves from Africa to do the work required to make the white men rich. Slave trade between Africa and the Americas began soon after Columbus arrived
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they had been given the short end of the stick. This indicates a deadly form of human interaction known to all as social bias which is responsible for segregation all around the world. In the segment “A Class Divided” by Frontline‚ the long-standing bias is broken down and annihilated by Mrs. Elliott and her student counterparts. Informing people in diverse environments everywhere that not judging others is critical because it helps everyone walk in one another’s shoes‚ it demonstrates how demoralizing
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In the video‚ A Class Divided‚ a third grade teacher‚ Jane Elliot‚ used eye colors to separate her class in an attempt to make them feel the way people of color feel when they are discriminated against. In the exercise all children with blue eyes were considered smarter‚ more fortunate‚ and over-all better people than the children with brown eyes. During recess‚ only the children with blue eyes were allowed to go on the playground equipment‚ and brown eyed children weren’t allowed to talk to the
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Ashley Pruitt N. Hickson CMST 10 06 March 2013 A Class Divided Essay Jane Elliot taught her 3rd grade students a very valuable lesson about not being prejudiced in 1970.Elliot separated her students into two groups based on the color of their eyes. On different days she claimed that one group was better than the other because of the color of their eyes. She tested the groups by using flashcards on the days that they were the superior group and on days they were inferior. She learned that on
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A Class Divided was an experiment conducted by a third-grade teacher named Jane Elliot. When Martin Luther King Jr was shot‚ one day later Jane Elliot knew teaching her third-grade class that discrimination was wrong‚ wasn’t such an easy task but a difficult challenge since their parents raised them to believe discrimination of the blacks was the right thing to do. According to the video uploaded by Jshapplet‚ Jane Elliot stated on the first day of the experiment that: It just might be interesting
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A Class Divided Reflection Diversity in Society Everyone is likely to experience some form of discrimination or prejudice; as is anyone capable of acting prejudiced towards others. On April 5th‚ 1968‚ a teacher in Riceville‚ Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment with her third grade class that dealt with the concept of discrimination; and was documented in Peters’ 1985 ‘A Class Divided’. The exercise originally took place the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated. The documentary
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A CLASS DIVIDED Thirty years ago Jane Elliott taught the third grade in the white‚ Christian community of Riceville‚ Iowa. The day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed she planned an exercise that wouldn’t just show her students what racism is - rather‚ it would give them first-hand experience of what it felt like to be oppressed for something out of their control. Elliott divided her class by the color of their eyes‚ marked them with armbands and proceeded to treat one group as if superior
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