Case Study #1
Restorative Circle and Definitions
DAY
1
What to Expect: Today’s Lesson
Warm Up
Questions
Vocabulary
Exit Ticket
Key definitions, quick write, learning target, check-in
Questions on identity
Putting our key definitions into context
Wrap-up
Warm Up
I can examine and discuss the impact �of racism on my life and the lives of those who are culturally different from me.
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Learning Target
Check-In
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Show the class with your fingers which number ‘duck’ represents how you’re feeling today?
Key Definitions to Consider
Identity
Race
Ethnicity
The qualities, characteristics or beliefs that make a person who they are.
An assumed category of people based on a similar set of physical and biological traits (what you look like)
Belonging to a social group that has common cultural traditions. (learn more)
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
5 Minute �Quick Write
What are your cultural identities?
What Makes Up �Our Identities?
SECTION ONE: WARM UP
Questions
What do you need to feel supported and challenged?
Preparation Question:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” –James Baldwin
How does your racial identity impact how you are treated in America?
Round One:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“It’s not our differences that divide us. It’s our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” –Audre Lorde
What do you know about racism and systemic racism?
Round Two:
Circle Agreements
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
“In all my work, what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than unalike.” –Maya Angelou
Vocabulary
Antiracist (adj.)
Black Students at Ithaca High School formed the “Afro-American Club’ whose purpose was to study the history of Black people in America. The members observed the National Negro History week in February and held a bake sale in the cafeteria.
EXAMPLE:
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Racist (adj.)
Use your own words to define:
In 1925 the Tompkins County Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organized a rally at Circus Flats and a parade through downtown Ithaca, NY. They burned crosses supported ideas about the supremacy of white protestant people like themselves, and terrorized Black people, Catholics, and Jewish people.
EXAMPLE:
SECTION THREE: VOCABULARY
Racist Policy
The leaders of the real estate board in Ithaca, NY encouraged real estate agents to not show homes to Black families in white neighborhoods. They chose to adopt and advertise the National Real Estate Board Code of Ethics that said
“A Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality, or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood.”
EXAMPLE:
VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY TO CONSIDER
Key Definitions to Consider
Antiracist (adj.)
Racist Policy
Racist (adj.)
Believing and acting as if racial groups are equals and actively resisting racism.
Any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. Policy includes: written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people.
Believing and acting as if something is wrong or right, superior or inferior, better or worse about a racial group.
Exit Ticket
Anti-Racist
Racist
Systemic
Racism
SECTION FOUR: EXIT TICKET
Aunt Jemima Advertisement
BLM Protesters in Rochester, NY
Monroe County Legislature in 1939/40 voting on racist deed restrictions on the homes sold to developers
Image Bank
Word Bank
Questions
Matching
Match one image from the bank to one of the words in the word bank.
Next, ask yourself the questions in the ‘questions’ column to put today’s lesson into perspective.
How well do you know the terms?
How is my cultural identity impacted by systemic racism?
How are those with different cultural identities from mine impacted by systemic racism?