1. Seeing Past Our Differences: Overcoming Prejudice Guiding Question: How do people and events open our eyes and change our views?

2. Define the word Prejudice Provide examples of events and people that have overcome Prejudice in our past.

3. Unit Exploration Page Unit Title: Seeing Past Our Differences: Overcoming Prejudice Guiding Question: “How do People and events open our eyes and change our views”? Area of Interaction: Community and Service

4. Rosa Parks View biography video on Rosa Parks. FREE WRITING: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING: Who was Rosa Parks? How did she open peoples eyes?

5. Rosa Parks Sightlines page 277 Read story

6. Rosa Parks- Friendly Letter Go over Letter format with envelope(students copy notes from whiteboard) 7788 118 street, Ottawa Ontario 27K1X3 Write Rosa Parks a Letter: 1 st paragraph- Introduce Yourself 2 nd paragraph- Ask Rosa Parks 2 questions (We will pretend that she is still alive.) 3 rd paragraph- Thank Rosa Parks for her contributions to society and how she has changed the world you live in today.

7. Martin Luther KingJr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an inspirational and influential speaker for many He frequently made references to God, the Bible and his Christian Faith. One of his famous speeches, “I have a dream”, helped him win the Noble Peace Prize in 1964 On April 4th 1968, King was assassinated

8. Martin Luther King Jr. Biography Video Watch the Martin Luther King Jr Biography I Have a Dream speech Discuss his life.

9. Remember the Titans Handout Watch Movie

10. Written Response to Visual Literature- “Remember the Titans” Response to literature: 1)Respond to our guiding question from Gary’s point of view: “How do People and events open our eyes and change our views?”