Cultural Patterns and Processes (13%–17%)
- Concepts of culture
- Cultural differences and regional patterns
- Cultural landscapes and cultural identity
- Understand how cultural values, political regulations, and economic constraints work together to create particular landscapes. Economic
- Students will analyze the economic constraints of a stratified society by playing Tradition Monopoly and a modified version, called Sociopoly.
- Students will apply their experiences with Traditional and Inequality Monopoly, to understand and explain the difference between a society based on quality and one that is stratified.
Step 1 | Do Now:
On a piece a of paper answer the following:
- What was the point of Wednesday's Privilege Walk?
- Are all people equal in America? Explain with examples.
Step 2 | Monopoly - Play Monopoly by the Traditional Rules (Do not open the white envelope)
- Complete the chart as you play
- When Ms. Kelly announces the game is over, complete the net worth chart and reflection questions on the back.
Step 3 | Sociopoly
- Each player roll the dice. Player with the highest number, open the white envelope and up to Order of Play. Wait for further instruction.
- When instructed, read the rest of the rules. Upper class, read the additional rules to yourself, and do not read them to the others until you want to, once the game is in play.
- Complete the chart as you play
- When Ms. Kelly announces the game is over, complete the net worth chart and reflection questions on the back.
Step 4 | Exit Slip
Step 5 | Discussion Questions
- What was the difference in economic constraints (money problems) during the tradition monopoly game vs the sociopoly?
- What are features of a society based on equality?
- What are features of a stratified society?
- Which society most closely resembles that of the U.S.?
The point of the privilege walk was to expose us to where our own classmates stand in terms of privilege. It was a great way for us to see who is where and maybe even explain why we do the things we do or why we are the way we are.
ReplyDeletePeople are not equal in America because others fail to understand the situations of different people. For example, a hispanic person that has struggled in America may deny the struggles of a white family because they are white. Thus, the white family is not given help because they are seen to have not have any "excuse" to be struggling, even though struggle is not determined by race or ethinicity. At least, it should not be.
What was the point of Wednesday's Privilege Walk?
ReplyDelete- The point of the event was to show everyone the difference of privilege that others can have or not have.
Are all people equal in America? Explain with examples.
- No they are not due to many opportunities that are in certain areas that others do not have. For that reason their community can have different and maybe better or even worse materials than other communities can have.
The point of wednesday is to see how people in America have different privileges.
ReplyDeleteNo not all people are the same in America. Many people in America have different kind of privileges.
The point of Wednesday's privilege walk was to get a better view of not only how privileged you see yourself but as well as how privileged you see other people. People that ended up in the front are the ones who according to the rules of the game, are the most privileged while the ones in the back are the ones who are underprivileged.
ReplyDeleteAs far as equality in America is concern, it is not seen in America as a majority of the elites tend to be Caucasians while a few tend to be people of colored races. Most businesses are owned by caucasians like Microsoft, and Apple.
The activity Wednesday was to see how privileged we were individually in society. And what I saw is that not all of us were privileged as many others. We were all in different areas.
ReplyDeletethe point of the privilege walk was to see or review where do we stand in this world and comparing each other. In America nobody is equal thats why it is a capitalist country.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I believe the activity is to show how the students relate/differ. People in America have equal opportunities but we really aren't equal. People live different lives and different influences which leads to different paths leaving,some without certain privileges and some more than others.
ReplyDelete1) I think the point of Wednesday's privilege walk was for us to realize that not everyone has the same privileges that I have. It was to make us realize that we should appreciate the privileges that we have because their are other people that do not.
ReplyDelete2) I think that not everyone in America is equal because in America we have homeless people and we have other people that are rich, which is why I think not everyone is equal.
I do think that everyones is equal because they have there own rights. But some of the people don't have that much rights because they might be from another country.
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