PREJUDICEPREJUDICE

"A Dream " by Common

• What is this song about?

• Who features in it?

• What do you know about Martin Luther King?

• Who else do you know has advocated for change? Why?

• What other songs do you know that respond to intolerance, prejudice and racism?

• Homework: Artists, songwriters and writers have vocally and creatively responded to political and social events in history.

• F ind a photo or visual representation of a historically famous example of intolerance or prejudice. -Create a 10 point fact file on this moment. Include points that answer these trigger questions: what is the photo or visual about? Who is in the visual? What are the people in the photo or visual doing? Why was the photo or drawing taken or created? By whom? When was the photo or visual made?

• Find and download a song, poem, novel or artwork that responds to a time or specific event in history that centres around the theme of racism and prejudice. Present your findings to the class in a two minute presentation.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=AU#/watch?v=WxzBG836NrY

Quotes about prejudice and tolerance

• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

• Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.

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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

• All colors will agree in the dark.

• Francis Bacon

• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.

• Edward R. Murrow

• http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-land-of-tough-talk-and-thin-skins-20120125-1qhl0.htmlv

• http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3416597.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/..com.com-.comwiesel.htm.com.com.com.comv

http://mrtwig.net/ep/401.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

uk-13452699

• www.abc.net.au/au story/

• www.abc.net.au/au story/

The Book Thief

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=interview+markus+zusak&ie=

UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

The Book Thief

First they Killed my Father

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=interview+with+loung+ung+youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/155183-1

To Kill a Mockingbird