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Identity & Community Lesson 1
 Lesson Plan February 18, 2009
A Barometer for the Popularity of Muslims: An Interview with Souad
  This interview is printed in "What Do We Do With A Difference? France and the Debate Over Headscarves in Schools".  France has a large population of immigrants from its former colonies in North Africa.
 Audio December 30, 2008
A Class Divided

60 minutes
Source: PBS Video

A Class Divided is an expanded version of Eye of the Storm. In this documentary, Jane Elliott meets with her class to talk about the classroom experiment about discrimination she performed 15 years earlier and the effects it had on their lives. In addition, Jane Elliott is seen giving this lesson to employees of the Iowa prison system.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Discussion with Elie Wiesel

30 minutes, color
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

Facing History and Ourselves students from Chicago area high schools share their thoughts and experiences as part of a panel discussion with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. There is a lesson created around this video, about Eve Shalen and the "in" group, on pages 29-31 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book.

Related lesson:
Membership, Identity, and Traditional Jewish Texts

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Jew is Not One Thing

28 minutes
Source: The Jewish Museum

This short film explores the nature of Jewish identity in contemporary society and raises questions about the personal nature of identity. Profiled are religious and secular Jews, ardent Zionists, and Jews committed to life in the Diaspora. This pluralistic view embraces the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Portrait of Maya Angelou

58 minutes
Source: Social Studies School Services

 Library Resource February 3, 2010
A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship
(New York Times, July 19, 2008) In the article, "A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship," Faiza Silmi was denied French citizenship from France's highest administrative court "on the ground that her "radical" practice of Islam was incompatible with French values like equality of the sexes.
 Facing Today July 22, 2008
A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship
(New York Times, July 19, 2008) In the article, "A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship," Faiza Silmi was denied French citizenship from France's highest administrative court "on the ground that her "radical" practice of Islam was incompatible with French values like equality of the sexes.
 Facing Today July 22, 2008
A World on Display

53 minutes

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Africans in America

4 episodes, 90 minutes each on 4 VHS or 2 DVDs
Source: PBS Video

Africans in America considers the contradictions that lie at the heart of the founding of the American nation. The infant democracy pronounced all men to be created equal while enslaving one race to benefit another. In four 90-minute programs, this series explores the impact of slavery on Americans—black and white—from the first English settlement in 1607 to the brink of civil war in 1861.

1. The Terrible Transformation (1607-1750)

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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