Textbook
Your Society - check it out! by Gregers Friisberg
Content
We chose
to work with the textbook Your Society - check it out! because it is important
for the students to be aware of both their own society, but also the society in
other cultures, in this case, America’s.
The pages
we have chosen to work with are located in Chapter
11. Columbine High - and other murders.
The
chapter introduces the Columbine High Shooting (Colorado, 1999), which was a
school shooting performed by two students, killing 12 students and a teacher
followed by taking their own lives.
It poses
the question: Will these killings ever stop? What do you think?
Further
on, the text presents various cases of shootings and killings.
Layout
The
layout is very easy on the eyes with blue nuances and black, fat headlines.
The
vocabulary, placed on the right side, makes it easy to understand the context.
The text is written with an easily read text.
There is
also a picture in the few pages we have chosen to work with, in black and white
from the Red Lake High School shooting.
Skills
- Speaking
- Listening to the other students
- Discussing in groups/in class
- Reflection (on other statements and the text)
- Awareness towards bullying
Aim
- 9th grade
- To get a discussion going on:
-
Bullying and the consequences
- Murder,
why?
- Today’s
school culture, Denmark vs. America
Teacher
They
would have to read the text at home, and then we will go over it in class and
explain more about the Columbine shooting that started it all.
Get a
class discussion going; why did they do it, could something like that happen
here, what did you feel reading and hearing about the killings and shootings,
and so forth.
Make them
do the exercise on page 223 with the picture.
Have them
write down their opinions towards school massacres.
Have them
watch the movie “Bang, bang, you’re dead”
(2002) and then assess their previous opinions again and discuss whether
or not those have altered after the showing of the movie.
Has this
course changed your view on yourself, others and/or how you behave towards
other people?
Have them
make a play like the one in the movie, (what would you miss if you were not
here anymore)with their own story or one from the chapter.
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