The document defines and discusses key terms related to intolerance, including prejudice, discrimination, racism, bigotry, and scapegoating. It prompts students to individually define each term and discuss as a class to develop shared definitions. Students are then asked to reflect on a time they have experienced one of these terms. The purpose is to build understanding of these concepts.

1. What Is Intolerance?

2. Define
1) Individually, write a definition for each word.
2) Place on a “Sticky-Note” in Jamboard.
Prejudice
Discrimination
Racism
Bigotry
Scapegoating

3. Define
3) Together as a class,
discuss each slide and
the definitions
shared.
4) At the end of our
discussion, we will
write a definition for
the class. Add the
definition to your
notebook.

4. Define
5. Below the definition we created
together, write the following definition.
6. Analyze: How close was our definition to
the dictionary definition?

5. Prejudice preconceived opinion that is not based on reason
or actual experience

6. Discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different
categories of people or things, especially on the
grounds of race, age, or sex.

7. Racism
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed
against someone of a different race based on the
belief that one's own race is superior.

8. Bigotry intolerance toward those who hold different
opinions from oneself

9. Scapegoating
blaming a person or people for the wrongdoings,
mistakes, or faults of others, especially for
reasons of expediency

10. Journal
Writing
+ If I can share your story, tell me at the
end of your story.
Write
about
Write about the experience, include
what happened and how you felt
Reflect Reflect - pick a time when you have
done one of these vocabulary terms

11. Covering
In the book Covering, Kenji Yoshino introduces the concept of
“covering." To cover is to downplay aspects of our identity that make us
different from mainstream society. The following excerpts (a blend of
material from the book’s preface and first chapter) introduce the
concept of covering and why it is important.
• Read the excerpt from the book.
• Annotate the text. – No annotation, no grade!
• Answer the text dependent questions that follow. Be prepared to
discuss your answers.

12. Making a Choice
Discuss the meaning of the following terms with your group
Perpetrator
• Person or people who engage in the intolerant behavior
Bystander
• Person or people who stand by and do nothing about the
intolerant behavior
Upstander
• Person or people who stand up to perpetrators of intolerant
behavior

13. And then they came for me
By Pastor Niemoller
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak for me.

14. And then they came for me
1. Which groups did he name? In what order?
2. What point did Niemöller want to make?
3. In the context of the vocabulary (Perpetrator, Bystander,
Upstander), what can we learn from this quote?
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
people to do nothing.”