LESSON: MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE 1st Lyceum of Thessaloniki Greece
Being different is something that people in society seem not to understand…
TOPIC: RACISM SUBJECT: ASPECTS OF RACISM a. Races b. Nationalities c. Poor and rich countries and communities d. Disabled people e. Mental disease f. Refugees g. Immigrants
Human beings and racism The truth is, racism began as soon as people faced those of different races. The world has a large variety of human shapes and colours
TARGET To present the problem To learn about people fighting against the problem all over the world To find solutions
Teaching methods Team centered project Videos Dramatization Writing essays
Teams The first group found information about Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and wrote a song. The second group wrote short drama texts The third group wrote an essay about racism. The fourth group made a short film. All groups made collages and paintings about racism and anti-racism.
Living together. The activists: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela
The Holocaust A genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi and its collaborators killed about six million jews. Nationalism->genocides->pogroms->ethnic cleansing
The holocaust in Greece, Thessaloniki, 1943 (NEVER AGAIN!) click here
Apartheid in South Africa Nelson Mandela(1918-2013) Revolutionary politician
Nelson’s Mandela biography click here
Martin Luther King American activist, humanitarian Leader in the African-American civil rights movement
A film for Martin Luther King: I have a dream click here
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Mahatma means “great soul” His vision was an independent India based on religious pluralism
A short biography for Gandhi click here
Words concerning racism: Stereotypes, Superiority Xenophobia Otherness Discrimination Ethnicity Nationalism Genocides Pogroms
XENOPHOBIA AND VIOLENCE
Anti- racism includes: social rights, education, civil liberty