N&C 20.11 (scenes 3-14)

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Slide 1: Mind map
EngelsMiddelbare schoolhavoLeerjaar 3

This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 45 min

Items in this lesson

Scenes 3-14

Slide 1 - Mind map

What is society like in the play?

Slide 2 - Slide

Marginalisation
to put or keep (someone) in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group

Impact on:
- Health
- Economics (equal opportunities)

Slide 3 - Slide

What is segregation?

Slide 4 - Open question

Segregation
Segregate = separate two groups to keep them physically apart from each other -> housing, education, services
Laws in 18th and 19th century America because people believed black and white couldn't coexist
Apartheid in South Africa 


Slide 5 - Slide

Lynching
A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.

Lynching - If a group of people lynch someone, they kill that person without letting them have a trial, especially by hanging, because they believe that the person has committed a crime.

Racial slurs - insults based on race
In the play: Blankers - Daggers.

Slide 6 - Slide

Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Slide 7 - Slide

Slide 8 - Video

Slide 9 - Video

Holocaust
Between 1941 and 1945, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi
Germany systematically murdered six million
Jewish people. They also murdered another five
million non-Jewish people. These five million
included Eastern Europeans, ethnic minorities,
the mentally ill and the disabled. In short, all
who Hitler and his collaborators deemed to be
‘inferior.’

Slide 10 - Slide

How is discrimination presented in act 1 - scenes 3-14?

Slide 11 - Mind map

The Power of Language
"It's just a word"
p. 21

Slide 12 - Slide

p. 23 - effect
(to audience)

Slide 13 - Slide

The Liberation Militia
What do they want and try to achieve?

Slide 14 - Slide

p. 26

Slide 15 - Slide

Slide 16 - Slide

Representation
p. 32

A 2002 study found that people estimated that 40% of those who committed violent crimes who were African American when the actual rate was 29%. The general public overestimates black participation in crimes such as burglaries drug sales and juvenile crimes by somewhere between 20 to 30 percent. For Hispanics, Americans have estimated that about 27% of violent crime is committed by Hispanics. And that figure actually exceeds the proportion of Hispanics in the prison population, that's 17%.

Slide 17 - Slide

Final scene

Slide 18 - Slide

Inequality
  • Segregation
  • Marginalisation
  • Discrimination 
  • Language
  • Racial slurs
  • Violence, aggression
  • Othering: they vs us
  • Representation

Slide 19 - Slide

Task
Choose Callum, Sephy, Callum, Lynette or Jude.

Imagine you are that character and you have a spare 5 minutes to write a diary entry about what has happened to you on one of the days in scenes 3-14.

  • How do you feel?
  • How do you feel about the people around you?
  • What are you going to do next? 

Slide 20 - Slide