The days after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, third grade school teacher Jane Elliott wanted to give her students in small town Iowa a lesson on racism that her students would never forget. She decided to divide her class into two groups based on a trait in her class. After that, they were treated differently based on this trait, giving the students first-hand experience on prejudice and discrimination that would become famous throughout the country. In part two of the video, the effects of the division in class are shown. Then on the next day things change.
1. Two boys fought at recess because one boy called the other boy “brown eyes”. This fight occurred most likely because:
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2. The children in the superior group were behaving _____ toward the children in the discriminated group.
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3. What happened on the second day?
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4. What kind of an effect did the segregation of the children by eye color have?
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5. At the beginning of the day, the teacher informed the students that children in the inferior group were not as smart as children of the superior group. Then the children who were being discriminated against performed worse on the phonics test than the superior group. This is an example of:
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6. What would have been a good way to help the blue eyed children not feel stigmatized on the second day?
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