3.2: Sneetches
In this activity students consider how discrimination affected the characters in the text.
Tasks
- Read The Sneetches or similar text to the class.
- Lead a class discussion based on the discrimination which took place in the story for example:
- How were the plain-belly sneetches treated?
- Was it fair or unfair?
- Ask students to give examples of how discrimination affected the characters in the book, for example:
- How did the behaviour of the star-belly sneetches affect the plain belly sneetches.
- Record the examples on the board or on butcher's paper.
- Ask students to brainstorm the moral of the story.
- The Sneetches is a story about two groups of
fictitious creatures, star-belly and plain-belly sneetches. The two
groups look the same with the exception of the star on the bellies of
one of the groups, the star-belly sneetches. The story looks at the
discrimination which exists between the two groups and its effects. Any
similar text may be used as an alternative to this activity.
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- Text: The Sneetches by Dr Seuss or similar text
- Butcher's paper
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