Module V: Discrimination

Select one the projects below to further explore how discrimination affects our society and the need for advocacy to stop it. Each project will require you to . . .

1. Research a topic or idea that will take you deeper into what it means to be an advocate.
2. Plan or design something that allows you to communicate your new knowledge and understanding of advocacy to others.
3. Share your work through the presentation or display of the finished product.

Project #1:Rosa Parks: Pioneer for Civil Rights
Curriculum Focus: Creative Writing

Rosa Parks
Pioneer of Civil Rights

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Rosa Parks: I don't remember feeling that anger, but I did feel determined to take this as an opportunity to let it be known that I did not want to be treated in that manner and that people have endured it far too long. However, I did not have at the moment of my arrest any idea of how the people would react.

[ Interview ] Rosa Parks

Challenge: Using the American Academy of Achievement Hall of Public Service to get started, research the life of Rosa Parks. Focus on her actions on a Montgomery bus, in1955, that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Outcome: Use your research to write an eyewitness account of Rosa Parks's action on the bus. Write in the first person either as Rosa Parks or another black passenger on the bus.

Project #2: Cliques and Stereotypes
Curriculum Focus: Social Studies

Challenge: Think about how stereotypes about people and groups can lead to discrimination. Students are very familiar with how school cliques are based on stereotypical assumptions about people. Conduct a student/faculty survey in your school to identify the main cliques and the stereotypes they are based on.

Outcome: Write a report that presents your survey results and explores ways isolating stereotypes can be overcome.

Project #3: Telling Events
Curriculum Focus: Current Events

Challenge: Research three front-page headline news stories that were a direct result of some form of discrimination. Identify causes, targeted individuals, discriminatory acts, and resulting consequences to individuals and the community.

Outcome: Develop a Cause/Effect web for each news story that illustrates the role discrimination played in the event

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