Hate Speech
- Ms. Sorbi
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min read
Last week our country witnessed a true crime of hate when a man entered a place of worship and killed 11 innocent people, solely based upon their religion. I found that my students had two separate reactions to this, half of them couldn't process the hatred that this event stood for while the other half expressed the frequency that these events take place and appeared to go about their day as if nothing had occurred. The latter of these reactions terrified me, as I saw a lot of truth in it. Are our children/students becoming desensitized to these mass shootings? How do we as educators, parents and leaders help to bring the severity of these events back to the forefront of their innocent minds? How do we create a safe place for them but also strive to remember those hundreds, dare I saw thousands, of innocent people murdered every day for acts of terror? I personally feel that we need to educate them, we need to teach them that kindness matters. We need to show them our differences, and remind them that differences help our country grow and prosper.
Okay, off my soup box. My lesson was built to educate students on hate speech and Antisemitism.
I highly recommend using this presentation after your history teacher has taught his/her unit on the Holocaust. It helps students to take in the information having already learned some of the important history behind the religion and it's past.
Lesson PowerPoint:
https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/0a6790_1461b74a4f9243da8d68dc25c249d134.pptx
Helpful resources:
Resources for short lessons on Looking into our Biases:
"The Lunch Date" video
-Looking at bias, our different perception of people -This is my favorite video to either open up or end a lesson on tolerance and bias
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