GP Lesson 6 Perspectives

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Today:

Perspectives, an elephant, blind men, and a writing assignment!

Look at this map for 30 seconds

What did you notice?

What is the first word that comes into your mind when you hear the word 'Africa'?

What message does this video send about Africa?

What does Adichie mean with 'the danger of a single story'?

What does Adichie say about the role
of power in creating a single story?

Stereotype

= A fixed image of a group of people, by which you apply the same characteristics to all the members of the group.

Example: Africans are poor

''The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.''

What stereotypes do you know?

Daniel's Story

 “This was wat the Rajah meant, if we put all pieces together, we got an beautiful animal out of this” the sixth man said. “Yes, this was what the Rajah meant” all blind men said. They continued talking during the walk to the village, when they were home the blind men said: we will keep a promise, we will never judge anything on one thing again. And they kept their promise, they never ever judged something on one thing again         

And they lived an happy life, because they now all agreed that one thing isn’t the whole story

 

Questions? Remarks? Ideas?