Transcript Activities and Links (Manal) File

• Movies: Freedom Writers/The Ant Bully/ The
Sneetches/ Hunter/ Central Park 5/ The Lunch
Date/ The Kite Runner/ A Class Divided
• Songs: Don’t Laugh at Me/ Heal the World/Black
or White/ We are the World/Circle of the
World/How come, How Long (Stevie
Wonder)/English Man in New York/Another day
in paradise/ The Streets of London/ Let there be
Peace on Earth/ Imagine
• Scenarios
• Cards
Media Links
• Rights to Education:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W
4l4zpPQOs
• The Sneetches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP
hOZzsi_6Q
• The Ant Bully:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY
93dba3nxM
• The Lunch Date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuTZigxUY8
• A Class Divided:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qKDiq1fNw
• Why choose an imaginary character?
• Find evidence of prejudice and of
discrimination.
• What do you equate with ‘stars’? What might
children equate with them?
• What/who does Sylvester McMonkey McBean
represent?
• What is Seuss’ message in 1961? Fifty years
later…is the message the same?
•
Imagine that you are a Plain Belly Sneetch (or a Star Belly Sneetch).
Write a journal entry about your thoughts and feelings. Share your entry
with the class. Compare.
• Imagine that you are a Star Belly mother whose child wants to invite a
Plain Belly child from her class to your important Sneetchstaroo party.
What will you tell your child? (With a partner, present a dialogue
between mother and child.)
• You are a newspaper reporter sent to cover the strange happenings in
Sneetchland. Write a news report about these events.
• You are a TV reporter covering events in Sneetchland. Present a brief
commentary in TV news style about what happened.
• Write a different ending to the story, starting (a) from McBean's
departure; (b) from the moment the Plain Bellies first come out of the
Star Machine with stars on their bellies and the Star Bellies see them.
• With a partner, write and present to the class a dialogue between a Star
Belly and a Plain Belly who would like to be friends.
• Read the situation and decide what you would do!
Sam is your friend. One day at school, when
you were changing clothes for the physical
education lesson, you noticed scars and red
marks on his back. It is clear that he is being
physically abused.
What would you do?
A mother is walking by her son Jonathan while he is on
the computer and notices that he keeps hiding the
screen when she walks by. Upon further observation,
the mother sees that Jonathan is making fun of
someone else via instant
messaging. What should the mother do first? Does
the mother need to contact the parents of the other
child? Should Jonathan be allowed to use the
computer?
James is frustrated and saddened by the comments his high
school peers are making about his sexuality. Furthermore, it
appears a group of male students are creating fake email
accounts at Yahoo.com and are sending love notes to other
male students as if they came from James—who is mortified
at the thought of what is happening. If you were a guidance
school counselor or administrator within the school, what
would you do if James approached you with the problem?
What about if you were James’s mom or dad? What can
James do to deal with the embarrassment? What would be
some incorrect and unacceptable ways that James might try
to deal with this problem?