3.4: Character web
This activity introduces students to the concept of 'prejudice'.
Tasks
- Enlarge a copy of Handout 9: Character web chart. Select one of the pictures from Handout 10: Character web pictures
and past it in the centre box of Handout 9. Alternatively use a
comparable picture from another source. Encourage students to imagine
the person in the picture and as a class complete the character web.
- Ask
students to work in groups of three or four. Cut up the pictures from
Handout 10 or other source and place them on the floor. Ask each group
to choose a picture to paste in the middle of Handout 9. In groups,
students complete the character web as modelled previously.
- Ask
each group to describe their character to the class. Encourage students
to explain why they choose their descriptions. Ask if they had any
evidence on which to base their descriptions.
- Explain to the class that sometimes we form opinions of people before we really know them based on their looks. We prejudge them. This results in prejudiced attitudes or thinking. Use examples of students’ character webs to illustrate.
In the discussion, point out the way in which groups of people are
sometimes prejudged. Sometimes we think that everyone who looks a
certain way or has something in common, is the same. Examples of such
prejudice may include:
- people in wheelchairs can’t play sport
- fat people are happy
- boys are braver than girls.
Ask students to contribute additional examples.
- Ask
the students whether this type of prejudice is unfair. Discuss how the
way we think about people can affect the way we treat them.
- This activity introduces students to the concept of 'prejudice'.
- Teachers may choose to use alternative comparable pictures from magazines or other sources.
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