TURKEY

YENİ TURAN PRIMARY NAME OF A SCHOOL

ERASMUS+

„Under the same sky, open minds, equal rights for all”

TURKISH LESSON “Anti-Racism-Respect for Others? ”

Subject: Human Rights, Citizenship and Democracy Course

Pupils: 10 years old, 4^th grade

Time: 1 lesson- 40 minutes

Author: K.Belgin Saka Üstünel –Banu Gündoğdu

Objectives: Students will be able to:

· Students will experience discrimination and develop a sense of fairness and equity.

· Students will apply literature to real life experiences.

· Students will become empowered to take responsibility for their environment.

Materials Needed:

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (text and video)
Yellow construction paper, sticky dots, or washable marker

Teacher preparation

(10 minutes):

Warm Up

Read The Ugly Duckling aloud as a whole class or in small groups. http://www.worldstory.net/en/stories/the_ugly_duckling.html
Watch The Ugly Duckling’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafXdmFsTbE

Activities

1. After reading the story aloud, let students participate in the following activities that can be adapted with or without the story.A special note on the simulation activity: The simulation exercise included here can help children understand the emotional impact of unfair practices.

2. The follow-up activity on discrimination helps ensure that students understand that the goal is to change those practices, not the characteristics that make us different from one another.

3. Allow an extended time for all students to have time in each group;

Divide the class into two groups by assigning students odd/even numbers.Half the class wears a yellow hat, using paper or a washable marker.The group with yellow hats/dots is granted the privileges on the class list.Allow an extended time for all students to have time in each group; those privileged with yellow hats and those without stars or yellow hats privileges..

Introduction

4. Students discuss The Ugly Duckling and students' experiences in small groups:

How do the ducks look? How do the ugly duck look?

· When you were a ugly duck, how did you feel about classmates ?

· What kinds of things that make people feel special?

· What makes you feel like a normal duck, an ugly duck?

· What feelings did you have during the class activity?

· What lessons did you learn?

Students will describe the thoughts of the character with mind portraits. Here they will draw their choice character and images of what he or she might be concerned or focused on.

Small groups share reflections and mind portraits and action ideas with the whole class.

Building on the action ideas from small group discussions, the class should brainstorm and make a list of suggestions for ending discrimination in the class or school, e.g. stop teasing. Discrimination can be defined as "unfair treatment of a person or a group."Challenge the class to put their class list into practice and work to end discrimination.

Presantation

Explain to students about racism. Students learn about unfair practices in a simulation exercise based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling and then create plans to stand up against discrimination.

Evaluation

Class reflections and assessments can be an ongoing activity.

Rubrics for mind portraits.

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The ugly duckling

Hans Christian Andersen

It is a beautiful summer day. The sun shines warmly on an old house near a river. Behind the house a mother duck is sitting on ten eggs. "Tchick." One by one all the eggs break open.

All except one. This one is the biggest egg of all.

Mother duck sits and sits on the big egg. At last it breaks open, "Tchick, tchick!"

Out jumps the last baby duck. It looks big and strong. It is grey and ugly.

The next day mother duck takes all her little ducks to the river. She jumps into it. All her baby ducks jump in. The big ugly duckling jumps in too.

They all swim and play together. The ugly duckling swims better than all the other ducklings.

- Quack, quack! Come with me to the farm yard! - says mother duck to her baby ducks and they all follow her there.

The farm yard is very noisy. The poor duckling is so unhappy there. The hens peck him, the rooster flies at him, the ducks bite him, the farmer kicks him.

At last one day he runs away. He comes to a river. He sees many beautiful big birds swimming there. Their feathers are so white, their necks so long, their wings so pretty. The little duckling looks and looks at them. He wants to be with them. He wants to stay and watch them. He knows they are swans. Oh, how he wants to be beautiful like them.

Now it is winter. Everything is white with snow. The river is covered with ice. The ugly duckling is very cold and unhappy.

Spring comes once again. The sun shines warmly. Everything is fresh and green.

One morning the ugly duckling sees the beautiful swans again. He knows them. He wants so much to swim with them in the river. But he is afraid of them. He wants to die. So he runs into the river. He looks into the water. There in the water he sees a beautiful swan. It is he! He is no more an ugly duckling. He is a beautiful white swan.