Embracing Diversity Lessons FREE! Here is the PowerPoint, but I also have step-by-step teaching directions to walk you through 5 days of lessons! Get these powerful lessons to help students understand that individual identity is shaped by many factors, including: individual characteristics; who the world says I am; empathy or lack of empathy for others; dominant and subordinate social groups; implicit bias; and the power and privilege, or lack of both, that go with these groups. FREE! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Embracing-Diversity-Lessons-FREE-2835896 This lesson is taken from the #1 best-selling Health curriculum on the whole TeachersPayTeachers website!! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Health-Curriculum-for-High-School-9-12-Full-Semester-with-90-Health-Lessons-196150

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2. WHO AM I?
I Am……Students create a 60 sec. list

3. 1. The Complexity of Identity:
“Who Am I?”

4. Identity is complex! It depends in large part who
the world around me says I am.
Who do they think I am?:
-My parents
-My peers
-My teachers
-My neighbors
-Store clerks
-Media
Identity is also determined by: race, ethnicity, gender, age, wealth,
sexual orientation, abled body or disabled, religion.
1.1

5. Cooley Quote:
“Other people are
mirror in which we
see ourselves.”
1.2

6. What is my social context?:
Have I been:
-Surrounded by people like me?
-A minority?
-English speaking or…?
-Living in a rural, suburban, or urban,
or… neighborhood?
2. Identity depends in large part who the world
around me says I am.

7. 3. PAIR/SHARE: Adolescence is a
time where teens become
aware of identity.
Think of real life examples
of yourself in elementary
school, or of little brothers
and sisters, that
demonstrate very little
self-consciousness.

8. 4. “Who Am I?” Survey

9. 5. Dominant Group:
“In the absence of dissonance, this dimension of identity (dominant
culture) escapes conscious attention.”

10. Dominant Group Questions:
What does it mean to be or have certain privilege?”
“Does race play a certain role?”
“Does gender play a certain part at all?”
“What does it mean to be
white in the United States?”
5.1

11. 6. PAIR/SHARE:
Were you ever the “other?”:

12. 7. Hand out
“8 Dimensions
of Social
Identity”
Worksheet

13. 8. HARVARD BIAS TEST:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

14. https://trustandjustice.org/resources/intervention/implicit-bias
8.1

15. 9. We all have things in common if you take the time
to get to know someone
for who they really are.

16. 10. VENN DIAGRAMS EXERCISE:

17. Name Name
10.1

18. John Fred
Cat dog parrot
Sister brother
10.2

19. VENN DIAGRAM: SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT?
~WHAT PETS DO YOU HAVE?
~WHAT ARE YOU MOST SCARED OF?
~DO YOU HAVE ANY BROTHERS AND SISTERS?
~WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOD?
~WHAT MONTH IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?
10.3

20. VENN DIAGRAM: SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT?
~WHAT SPORTS DO YOU LIKE?
~WHAT T.V. SHOWS ARE YOUR FAVORITES?
~WHAT REALLY ANNOYS YOU?
~WHERE HAVE YOU EVER TRAVELLED OUTSIDE OF OUR
STATE?
~WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECT AT SCHOOL?
10.3

21. 10.4

22. 11. EMPATHY: a key part of embracing your own
identity is being able to have empathy for a person who is part of
another “other” category.

23. E m p a t h y :
What is empathy?
(it’s not “sympathy")
1) Identify with their feelings ~How do they feel?
2) Put yourself in their shoes ~How would I feel?
3) Respond and show your understanding ~What can I do?
11.111.1

24. Write on Board - Empathy Survey:
1 - Not at all
2 - A little
3 - Some of the time (about 1/2 and 1/2)
4 - Most of the time
5 - Almost all of the time
Find a blank space of paper and # your paper 1 - 10
11.2

25. Empathy Survey: How much empathy do you have?
1. I feel empathy for people who are less fortunate than me.
2. I find it easy to understand other people’s points of view.
3. I am greatly upset by other people’s hardships and
misfortunes. (like a house fire, or parents divorce)
4. If someone needed help in an emergency, I would
willingly offer it. (like an asthma attack, or unconscious)
5. There are two sides to every story, I remember this fact
and try to look at both sides.
11.2

26. Empathy Survey: How much empathy do you have?
6. I would give money to people in need even if I did not
know them well. (like in a disaster, give donation)
7. If I saw a neighbor had a need, I would offer to help without being asked.
(like if their groceries were spilling)
8. I would let an elderly or disabled person go ahead of
me in line even if I was in a hurry.
9. I would try and stop a friend from hurting someone, even
if the person they wanted to hurt was not our friend.
10. When I make decisions I try and think of the rights
of everyone involved.
11.2

27. Empathy Survey Results:
10 - 30: You are not very empathetic :(
You are reluctant to help others
You need to work on your empathy skills!
Remember, it’s a choice!
31 - 40: You are average in your empathy :l
Empathy might not come naturally
You may need to purposely think about it
41 - 50: You are very empathetic! :)
Yeh! Keep it up!
You never know the difference you might make
11.2

28. Pair / Share:
• Discuss with your table partner why it's difficult
to be around someone who is selfish.
11.4

29. THE OPPOSITE OF EMPATHY IS: selfish
and heartless!
E M P A T H Y I S A choice
11. 5

30. The opposite of empathy is selfish and/or heartless. Here's
proof:
2. I find it easy to understand other people’s points of view.
-If you won't understand other's points of view, whose are you only thinking of?
5. There are two sides to every story, I remember this fact
and try to look at both sides.
-If you won't listen to their side, whose are you only hearing?
6. I would give money to people in need even if I did not
know them well.
-If you won't give $ to someone in need, who are you
probably keeping it for?
11.6

31. The opposite of empathy is selfishness. Here's proof:
8. I would let an elderly or disabled person go ahead of
me in line even if I was in a hurry.
-If you won't let a disable person go ahead of you, who are you worried
about getting through the line? It’s heartless to not feel for an elderly or
disabled person!
10. When I make decisions I try and think of the rights
of everyone involved.
-If you won't think of their rights, whose are you
only thinking about? Don’t you CARE how the other
people will be affected???
11.6

32. <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-pU7ozt3g>
Video
11.7

33. 12. Domination + Subordination
“Dominant groups, by definition, set the parameter within which the
subordinates operate.”
“The relationship of the dominants to the subordinates is often one
in which the targeted group is labeled as defectiveor
substandardin significant ways.”

34. Pair / Share:
Discuss with a partner this statement: “Some
young white people, believe that
being white is a liability.
Why would they feel
this way? Or are they
really denied access to
many opportunities,
that are shared with
other minorities?” 12.1

35. Pair / Share:
• Discuss with your table partner what groups we
have at our school?
• What are the labels (names) for these groups?
• When can these labels be hurtful?
• Have ever been hurt by someone’s
label (or opinion) of you?
12.2

36. Why do we label?
Do some groups have more power than others?
Are there people who can be in more than one group?
When can
labels be
hurtful?
12.2

37. Why do we label?
To know where we fit in and to make sense of
things
Do some groups have more power than others?
Are there people who can be in more than one group?
When can
labels be
hurtful?
12.2

38. Stereotypes: are generalizations used to define a
group of people based only on the appearance,
words, or actions of one or
just a few members of that group.
Be careful with comments -
especially about a person’s
ethnicity, skin color, religion
"You're so and so's bro or sis, you must be_____"
12.2

39. WHAT IS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL’S DIVERITY?
･
White･ 91 %
･Hispanic･ 4 %
･Asian/Pacific Islander･ 2 %
･American Indian/Alaskan Native･ 2 %
･Black･1 %
12.2

40. What is the problem with stereotypes?
-WE BOX PEOPLE IN AND DON’T
GET TO KNOW THEMFOR WHO
THEY REALLY ARE.
AND, THEY CAN BE
VERY HURTFUL.
STEREOTYPES LOWER
OUR EMPATHY
This is often the progression: we label - stereotype -
make fun of person - mean - think we’re better
than them - bully/harass - prejudisms –
discrimination -anger - hate - VIOLENCE
12.2

41. This is often the progression: we label -
stereotype – make fun of person - mean –
think we’re better than them - bully/harass –
prejudisms – discrimination
-anger - hate - VIOLENCE
12.2

42. •RACIAL
•RELIGIOUS
•GENDER
•WEIGHT
•SEXUAL ORIENTATION
•STYLE OF CLOTHES
Racism is: Discrimination or prejudisms
based on race.
Bigotry is : Being intolerant of opinions,
lifestyles, or identities differing from his/her own.
Prejudisms: Stereotypes cause people to form prejudisms.
To be prejudiced means to pre-judge a person.
It is an attitude , or unreasonable opinion,
almost always negative about
someone because they are
associated with part of a group of
people. (It's often based on inaccurate
information and not even knowing that
person individually)
12.2

43. EXAMPLE: Stereotypes: generalizations used to
define a group of people based only on the
appearance, words, or actions of one or just a
few members of that group.
Page 1
Real Example: Woman in an extra weight"
suit...
12.2

44. Stereotyping is OVERGENERALIZED STATEMENTS about people
in a certain group.
“All women are too emotional.”
Prejudice is A NEGATIVE, UNREASONABLE OPINION/ATTITUDE
or having a problem with people in a certain group, but not
actually doing anything to them.
“I hate women because they are so emotional.”
Discrimination is the ACT of doing something harmful to
people in a certain group.
Not hiring a woman because you think she’ll be emotionally
unstable.
12.2

45. 13. Domination + Subordination =
Prejudice + Discrimination!

46. Local Stories
and more...
13.1

47. Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was an African
American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who, at 17 years old, was fatally shot by
George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida.
Martin, who was serving a school suspension, had gone with his father on a visit to his
father's fiancée at her townhouse at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford. On the
evening of February 26, Martin went to a convenience store and purchased candy and
a canned drink. As Martin returned from the store, he walked through a neighborhood
that had been victimized by robberies several times that year. Zimmerman, a member
of the community watch, spotted him and called the Sanford Police to report him for
suspicious behavior. Moments later, there was an altercation between the two
individuals in which Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest. Zimmerman, who was injured
in the altercation, was not charged at the time of the shooting by the Sanford Police,
who said that there was no evidence to refute his claim of self-defense and that
Florida's stand your ground law prohibited law-enforcement officials from arresting or
charging him. After national media focused on the tragedy, Zimmerman was eventually
charged and tried in Martin's death. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of second-degree
murder and of manslaughter in July 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford,_Florida
13.1

48. In 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, two lives intersected
and were forever altered.
On Black Friday 2012, two cars parked next to
each other at a Florida gas station. A white middle
-aged male and a black teenager exchanged angry
words over the volume of the music in the boy's
car. A gun entered the exchange, and one of them
was left dead. Michael Dunn fired 10 bullets at a
car full of unarmed teenagers and then fled.
Three of those bullets hit 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died at the scene. Arrested
the next day, Dunn claimed he shot in self-defense. Thus began the long journey of
unraveling the truth.
3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets follows that journey, reconstructing the night of the murder
and revealing how hidden racial prejudice can result in tragedy.
13.1

49. In closing arguments at the first trial, the defense lawyer for Michael Dunn cited the
language of Florida’s
stand-your-ground law. The jury was unable to return a unanimous verdict on a
charge of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Jordan Davis. The judge
declared a mistrial on that count.
Dunn was convicted, however, on three counts of attempted second-degree murder
for firing at three other teenagers who were with Davis and one count of firing into a
vehicle. The three other teenagers were not shot.
Dunn faced up to 75 years in prison for the four counts on which he was already
convicted. Dunn's retrial for first-degree murder began the week of September 22,
2014.
He was found guilty October 1, 2014, and was sentenced to a mandatory sentence of
life in prison with no chance of parole on October 17, 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jordan_Davis
13.1

50. A Neighbor is Prejudice11:
A Caucasian woman got along very well with her neighbor. She
had just recently started to date a Black man. As her daughter was
doing the dishes one night, she looked out through the kitchen
miniblinds and told her mother, "It looks like Don just wrote something
on our car."
The woman thought her neighbor might
have written "wash me."
Her son, then 13, went out to check. On the
car, in black felt pen,
was the ugliest racial slur and "KKK."
"I was in shock. The kids were saying,
'call the police, call 911. I was shaking
..."the woman recalls.
When she went out yourself to check,
at first she didn't see her neighbor, then
she was horrified to see the neighbor
back in her yard with a gas can.
"He was pouring it in my yard," she said.
"I just screamed at him, get out of my yard."
The neighbor plead guilty to one
count of felony malicious
harassment , and was sentenced to
do 120 hours of community service,
was ordered to pay $5,000, and
complete a Community Anti-Bias
Reconciliation Program
13.1

51. Two teens arrested in racial incident12 Two white teenagers have been arrested in the
spray-painting of a racial slur and other vandalism of a
black family’s car.
The 16-year-old Everett
boys were arrested Tuesday
for investigation
of malicious harassment.
Investigators believe the pair sprayed a racial epithet and another
insult …onto a gold Cadillac outside the home, slashed all four tires
and poured more than five pounds of sugar into the gasoline tank.
Damage was estimated at $4,000. The Black man rode the bus for more
than a year to save enough money to buy the 1995 Cadillac.
He said the incident of vandalism was the first time in his life he
felt targeted because of his race.
The boys are being investigated for "Malicious Harassment" which carries
penalties of up to five years in juvenile prison and a $5,000 fine
13.1

52. Man decapitated in possible racial killing13 June 8, 1998
A Black man in Jasper, Texas was walking home one night when
some men in a pick up truck stopped to see if he wanted a ride. He
climbed in the back of the truck and was driven to a logging road,
beaten unconscious and then tied to the back of a pickup truck and
dragged down the logging road. The man was beaten, urinated on
and dragged about 2 miles behind a pickup by log chains attached
to his ankles.
A sheriff's deputy, tipped off by a phone call, found his "badly
mangled" body. His head and an arm were found a short distance
away, the source said.
13.1

53. Hate crime killer executed
HOUSTON CHRONICLE September 22, 2011
As the sisters of his victim watched solemnly but dry-eyed, the killer was
executed Wednesday for the 1998 Jasper dragging murder - a racially motivated
killing that stunned the nation.
He was the first of two killers scheduled to be put to death. A third killer was
sentenced to life in prison.
Jasper County law officers who
recently visited the prisoner
on death row said he
expressed no remorse.
13.1

54. 14. “I Am NOT Black, you are NOT White”
Video:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qD2K2RWkc>

55. 15. Negative Messages of Dominant
Group:
Tatum says in this section that
“There are many
examples of subordinates
attempting to make themselves over
in the image of the dominant
group.”
Can you give some
real life examples of this?

56. Brian Stevenson Video:
“Slavery to Mass Incarceration”!
<http://eji.org/videos/slavery-to-mass-incarceration> 15.1

57. Racial Profiling Video!
15.2
https://prezi.com/m/fwyyefundxnt/the-complexity-of-identity-who-am-i/

58. Tell a table partner if you
have ever faced prejudism
or seen it with someone
you know.
If you haven’t ever
witnessed or seen it,
why do you think that is?
Pair / Share:
15.3

59. A History of Prejudisms:
15.4

60. 15. This is often the progression: we label - stereotype -
make fun of person - mean - think we’re better
than them - bully/harass - prejudisms – discrimination anger - hat
15.5

61. 15.6

62. 15.6

63. “Prejudisms” Video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6w1c4oLfI>
Language
warning…
15.7

64. Have you ever had a privilege that others may
not have had ???
Such as:
-My family has not had divorce
-We have a nice home and car
-My parents have jobs
-None of my family is in prison
-When I cut my finger the flesh-colored band-aid generally matches
my skin tone
-The shampoo at my store works for my type of hair
-I’ve never had a cop suspect me of something I didn’t do
Pair / Share:
15.8

65. The House That Racism Built:
15.9

66. 16. DON’T INTERNALIZE THE NEGATIVE
MESSAGES and
DO ACKNOWLEDGE
OTHER’S PAIN!

67. Dr. King: I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that
the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward
freedom is not the…Klu Klux Klanner, but the White
moderate, who is more devoted to “order” and “justice,”
who prefers…the absence of tension to a positive peace.”
16.1

68. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not
merely for the hateful words and actions of the
bad people but for the appalling silence of the
good people.
16.2

69. Pair / Share:
Discuss this:
“Everybody wants to change the world, but
nobody wants to change themselves…”
16.3

70. 16.4

71. Ben & Jerry's releases statement supporting Black Lives
Matter movement
"All lives will not matter until Black lives matter."
UPDATED 8:13 AM EDT Oct 08, 2016
16.5

72. For the art project:
Your goal is
to create
a type of
ice-cream
that promotes reconciliation, kindness,
acceptance, tolerance, understanding, healing,
motivation to stop racism, accepting others,
etc…
Design the container to reflect your message.
16.6

73. Works Cited
Many slides and activities in this PowerPoint are
taken from my full semester Health Curriculum at:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Health-Curriculum-for-High-School-9-12-Full-
Semester-with-90-Health-Lessons-196150

74. Works Cited
1. <http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/07/melting-pot-salad-bowl-chocolate-
fondue.html>
2. http://cfyprograms.com/2011/11/01/r-tworx-art-to-celebrate-diversity/
3. “The Complexity of Identity: “Who Ami I?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum
4. Harvard Bias Test:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
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