
Single Stories (UK)
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In the previous lesson, students began the first stage of the Facing History & Ourselves scope and sequence, ‘Individual and Society’, by considering the complexity of answering the question ‘Who am I?’ In this lesson, students will continue to explore the relationship between individual and society by examining how we so often believe ‘single stories’ and stereotypes about groups of people. The activities that follow ask students to reflect on the basic human behaviour of applying categories to the people and things we meet, and to think about the circumstances in which ‘single stories’ about others can be harmful or even dangerous.
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