Discrimination is recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another, we as people have/get discriminated since we were put on this planet. A Class Divided; was a lesson taught by Jane Elliot to her third grade class, her plan was to teach these third graders about discrimination, to put them in the shoe of minorities at the time. These third graders experienced discrimination in their classroom to teach them about their many questions about how minorities were treated and what it can do to you; many minorities were prejudiced and stereotyped, causing them to have aggressive behavior.
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A Class Divided, a lesson taught by a third grade teacher by the name of Jane Elliot to have the youngsters experience discrimination. Jane Elliot was a third grade teacher and anti-racism activist, as a …show more content…
Jane Elliot covered the topic and talked it to them but they couldn’t comprehend, so she had them experience discrimination first-hand. She told her class that all blue-eyed people are better and brown eyed aren’t, the blue-eyed kids felt superior throughout the whole day as the brown-eyed kids felt inferior. Superior is higher in rank or quality, as inferior is the opposite; lower in rank or quality, throughout the day the brown-eyed kids were treated atrociously showing aggressive behavior towards the blue-eyed kids. Causes of aggressive behavior are from an obstacle that stands in the way of doing something, however frustration makes you angry when felt the act what intentional. A prejudice; an unfavorable attitude toward a group of people this situation it was brown-eyed kids. Stereotype is a belief or expectation about a group of people; the blue-eyed students were told at the beginning of the day brown-eyed are lazy and dumb so they drew quick generalizations about them all as a