Dec. 14 - Is Race Real Activity

Use What is Race-The Power of an Illusion to help you answer the following questions.

Answer in bullets or complete sentences. Be prepared to discuss and defend your answers, and use specific references from the website.

1. What is race?
1. Click on all 10 links
2. Summarize the main points from this section

2. Sorting Activity
1. Try the activity. How did you do?
2. What conclusions can you draw from this activity?

3. Click on the Race Timeline
1. Click on “Explore the TimeLine
2. Read some of the events from each of the different timeframes from before 1787-2000.  
• Answer this  question:  How have ideas and understandings of race changed over time? How have different groups been affected by these changes?

4. Explore other sections of the site and answer the following questions
1. How have your understandings of race changed after navigating through this site? Explain what has changed and what has not changed.

Choose Your Own Identify - NY Times Article from Dec. 14, 2015 about a mom's dilemma in explaining his race to her son.

Career Exploration Unit - Starting Dec. 7

• Essential Question:
• How can understanding my personality traits help me to research careers that are suitable for me?

• Learning Targets:
• I will take the Myers-Briggs Personality test to determine  4 personality traits:
• Extrovert or Introvert  
• Sense or Intuit
• Thinker or Feeler
• Perceiving or Judging
• Task (Monday - Dec. 7):

Take the Myers-Briggs personality test:

Read what your 4-letter personality type is (ISTJ, for example

Read the description of your personality type

Write down any words that are new to you.

Determine their meaning using context clues or use dictionary.com to find their meaning

Write down characteristics and behaviors that are associated with this personality type
Do you agree with this assessment? Turn and talk with someone at your table. Explain your personality type and tell why you agree or disagree with this description of you.

• Task (Tuesday - Dec. 8):
• Read more about your personality type at these pages:          
• http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
• http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes1.ht
• Some areas to investigate:  Communication Skills - how can you work with students of other personality types? Learning Styles - How can knowing your personality type help you to learn better? 
• Talk with you table partners about your personality type and ask them about theirs.
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• Choose one of the following assignments:
• Write a paragraph using the IVFT 4 Step Summary method to summarize the description of your personality type
  
• http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes1.htm
  
• Make sure you select your type OR
• Write an ACES paragraph answering the prompt: Do you agree or disagree with this  
  
  
  

  characterization?  Why? Give specific examples of your own behavior to prove your point. Remember to provide evidence from the text and from your own behaviors to as evidence to support your answer.