---
title: "11.29.06"
date: 2006-11-29
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/11/29/112906/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 11.29.06

Core 1:

- The context of Racial Slurs:    Why are they so powerful? Destructive?
- What does it mean today? What did it mean in the 1930’s?
- Who can say them?
- How does it change the way we look at the characters in the book?

- Read Chapter 2.  What is the significance of the “burnings?”
- Why do you think that Papa brought Mr. Morrison home?

Core 2:

- Write-On: What is the greatest indignity someone can force upon you?
- Read to the end of chapter 1 and write down all of the ways in which Vladek loses identity or gains it.

Core 3:

- Discuss-On: How do you get the most out of a short story?
- Read “After I was thrown into the river, and before I drowned.”

Core 4:

- The context of Racial Slurs:
-  Why are they so powerful? Destructive?
- What does it mean today? What did it mean in the 1930’s?
- Who can say them?
- How does it change the way we look at the characters in our books?

- Make a case for firing or keeping the teacher at the high school.  How does [this change your view of the story](http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/WHAS11_LOCAL_DawsonLetter.30d6ca.html)?