+1 862 207 3288 watch the entire documentary called “A Classroom Divided” which explores Jane Elliott’s “blue eyes/brown eyes” exercise with 3rd graders in 1968, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are to write a response to the film answering the following questions in essay form.
What is your “take-away” from this film? What scene or scenes do you think you’ll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
What did the reactions of the children to the exercise (facial expressions, body language, eye contact, etc.) indicate about the impact of discrimination?
What features did the teacher ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how did those characteristics reflect stereotypes about blacks and whites?
How did the discrimination by the teacher create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group?
How did she selectively interpret behavior to confirm the stereotypes she had assigned?
How did the negative and positive labels placed on a group become self-fulfilling prophecies?
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