Weekly Schedule and Lesson Plans (still needs a few tweaks)

Monday (Jasmine): The first day will serve as an introduction to cultural biases by introducing facilitator videos that can serve as examples of the videos the students will create for the end of the week. Following facilitator introductions, students will be given a mini-lesson on the definition of cultural bias, and how Media can be misused to disrupt our communities and  promote messages of hate. Students will be encouraged to provide commentary on why the different examples in Media show cultural bias. The main activity of the day includes having each student write down their own personal biases, or biases they have seen in their community. These biases will be used to engage the students in discussion of each bias over a game of four corners. The final discussion/ activity will be an introduction to  Level 1 of “The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World” (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/). This will be an activity that will end each day; the students will be encouraged to think of and share ideas they can implement into their daily lives to decrease the presence of cultural bias.  

20 minutes- intro and video

Touch on some global topics (Myanmar/Rohingya conflict & Syrian refugees in Lebanon) (brief intro to the week) and define cultural bias and other important things 

“Tag game”- 25-30 minutes

4- Corners- 25- 30 minutes 

Butcher paper for the four corners 

Lazy Person’s Guide introduction with example - 10 minutes 

https://cultureplusconsulting.com/2018/08/16/a-ha-activities-for-unconscious-bias-training/

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Tuesday (Daniel): The second day will be a full day of global cultural bias discussion. We will open the day with a mini-lesson on the current immigration issues affecting our world, and how cultural bias plays a roll in how immigrants are treated. To do this, we will discuss issues with The Rohingya People of Myanmar and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon.

• 4- Corners (begin light and go into depth) with global topic (30 minutes)
• “Recognize and Change the Story”→ Find a news article/ video explain its bias, explain how you could change it.  Extension: plan a small presentation (you can be as creative as you want) to act it out  
• “Who Am, I”:  Each student take 5 minutes to brainstorm a list of words that have to deal with them and their culture, out of that list, turn some of those words into symbols (15 minutes) and have the students share the list and compare (roam around the room and share some items (anything you can take/give from another person))→ collect them
• Introduction to the videos by showing different examples/ commercials (break them into groups and have them think of general ideas of videos) (15 minutes)
• Lazy Person’s Guide- 10 minute

 The final discussion/ activity will be an introduction to  Level 2 of “The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World”. Students will be encouraged to think of and share ideas they can implement into their daily lives to decrease the presence of cultural bias.  

Wednesday (Jasmine): The third day will wrap up the discussion of global immigration cultural bias by talking about the current state of immigration in our own country. This will open up the floor to change into the conversation of our own biases and the ones we may see in our community. Students will be prompted to discuss these biases with one another. The facilitators will introduce the idea of “Fake Logos” to introduce and how they can be used as a positive way to advertise the change we wish to see. Students will be encouraged to think of and turn in their own logos for their shirts that will be distributed at the end of the week. The final discussion/ activity will be an introduction to  Level 3 of “The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World” , Students will be encouraged to think of and share ideas they can implement into their daily lives to decrease the presence of cultural bias.  

• Global/ National Immigration (southern boarder) (show an example of media as it pertains to the the topic and ask how they could change it) (30 minutes)
• Bring It Home: Local things they deal with 
• Take 15 minutes to choose 3-4 of their top symbols, Refine them and make them a final draft
• 10 minutes- Lazy Person’s Guide 
• 35 minutes to begin the PSA video

Thursday (Daniel):  The First part of the day will continue to focus on personal biases and how we can go about changing how we think about the world around us. We will do this by (Video Hook:  scene from Spiderman: into the Spiderverse that gives an example of a personal bias https://youtu.be/S6N5QcNXdKU between time mark :20 and .30 on the video) [INSERT GREAT IDEA HERE :) ] The second half of the day will be dedicated to allowing the students to finishing their media video clips for the presentations.

The final discussion/ activity will be an introduction to  Level 4 of “The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World”. Students will be encouraged to think of and share ideas they can implement into their daily lives to decrease the presence of cultural bias.  

• Government, School/ Education, Policing (Providing examples for different things in the area) (20 minutes)
• Think about what personal biases you have
• Tell them the purpose of the design, Take the symbols to create one “logo” that you feel defines you (15-20 minutes) → Single Colors 
• Show some fake logo designs as well as our own personal design  
• 10 Minutes- Lazy Person’s Guide
• Continue video-making (40 minutes)

Friday:  The last day will be used to put the final touches on each group video and to pass our shirts of the students designs that can be worn to the presentation.

• Finishing up videos (1 Hour)
• Short lesson on editing

**We can ask about using a mac lab for this day if we need.