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Why Did Jane Elliott Decide To Conduct The Project Summary

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1. How did she divide her class for the project? Why? Mrs. Elliot divided her class by eye color in order to teach her students that it was wrong to judge and mistreat people because of their physical features. 2. Please list at least 2 other ways she could have divided the class that would also have been effective for this project. Mrs. Elliot could have divided the class by hair color and by height. 3. What event made Mrs. Elliott decide to conduct the project? Be specific. The assassination of Marthur Luther King Jr. inspired Jane Elliot to conduct this project after one of her students questioned the event, so she wanted to help her students understand that being prejudice is wrong by experiencing mistreatment, discrimination, and the feeling of being “stepped on” through the project to better understand Dr. King’s assassination. 4. What were four of the comments that the "superior" group made during the first day of the project? Be specific. What did you think about these comments? One of the students apart of the group, Raymond, said that he felt like a king, that he felt happy, that he felt like he ruled the brown-eyed people, and that he felt like he was better than them. I found his comments to be troubling because Mrs. Elliot’s project depicts how …show more content…

Elliot was taking their best friends away. Another student said being called “brown-eyed” by the blue-eyed kids meant that they were stupid or something equivalent. I thought the comments were disheartening because it shows the daily struggle of what people of color go through when they face discrimination or anyone else who is considered different. However, this project made me feel happy that these children got to experience discrimination so that they will not repeat the same actions to someone

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