After reading a workplace ethics scenario regarding an employee who makes racially insensitive comments, your learners will discuss how language that stereotypes others is discriminatory and never "just joking."

Concepts

discrimination, stereotypes, ethics

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Design a T-chart with your class on the topic of safe versus discriminatory comments, with the left side dedicated to comments that will most likely be received as jokes, and the right side noting how those jokes can be taken too far

Pros

• Includes follow-up questions for each major role in the scenario
• Activity handouts are ready to be printed and distributed

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a