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Homework from 29th January

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

This is due on Thursday 5th February.

Write me a short essay (1 side of A4 max) telling me about you favourite anti-Apartheid hero.

  • Who were they?
  • What did they do?
  • What did you like about them?
  • Why?
  • Did their religious ideas make a difference?

To do really well try to explain why you chose your favourite over the others. Try to persuade me that you are right!

Here’s some information on the three characters:
Desmond Tutu
Nelson Mandela
Trevor Huddlestone

There’s also some information in the details of last week’s homework.

Lesson on Apartheid: 29th January

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Today we had a balloon debate looking at 3 anti-apartheid heroes. Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Trevor Huddleston.

In the end, after considering all three and looking at their contributions to the abolition of apartheid, we decided that Trevor Huddleston would make the ultimate sacrifice….

The homework set can be found here and has more information on the people involved.

Lesson on racism: 22nd January

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Today we looked at where racism came from, particularly looking at slavery and the Windrush. We considered the kinds of pictures racist people might have in their heads when thinking about people of a different race and how we might change that.

Where does racism come from?

Play the racism quiz

For the homework look here

Homework from lesson on 22nd Jan

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Firstly, everyone needs to find out a little bit about Apartheid. Basically it was a time in South Africa between 1948 and 1990 during which there was a separation of white people from those of other races. Many non-white people were badly oppressed during this time. Look here for some information.

Your homework is to find out a bit about 3 people who fought against Apartheid. You were divided into three groups. Each group needs to do some research.

Each of the below links are Wikipedia articles to get you started. I hope you’ll Google these people yourselves to find out a bit more than the basics. I’m particularly interested in whether religious ideas made a difference to what they did.

  • Group 1: Nelson Mandela. Look here to start with.
  • Group 2: Desmond Tutu. Go here.
  • Group 3: Trevor Huddlestone. Try here.

If you weren’t there in the lesson then just pick any of the above to find out about!
Good luck!

Lesson: 15th January 2009

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Lesson on racism from Thursday 15th Jan. The idea was to get you thinking about what might make people racist.

Key question: What might cause people to be racist?

Things to think about: Do people just wake up one day and decide to be racist? No probably not. People become racist over many years of being around the idea that people with a different colour skin are inferior or are in some way fundamentally different.

Can you make someone not a racist by just telling them they are wrong? Probably not. Imagine the time when people believed the sun rotated around the earth. It was really hard to change the mind of people who had that idea stuck in their heads for so long, even though the evidence was right there. It’s really hard to change somebody’s mind on something! With that in mind, how might you change somebody’s mind about racism?

Powerpoint: Meaning makers

Prince Harry video: Prince Harry

News articles: Muslim victim of ‘racist attack’, CCTV captures racist attack gang, John Lydon denies ‘racist’ attack.

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Sunday, January 18th, 2009

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