The Bluest Eye Lesson Plan
Class Preparation: 2 minutes
- Ask the students to divide into 2 big groups, and each group will have 2 members from
each novel; Mind, Jane, Time, Taiji, Auau, Preaw, Genie, Folk and Peak, Bom, Minnie,
Fifa, PK, Ford, Win and Nut. Remind the class about the rules, expectations and briefly
explain the Bluest Eye.
- A point system will be introduced to the class. Participation in activities will be given
points. Winners in some activities will be awarded points. Speaking Thai will deduct the
point. Points will be tracked on post-its, and at the end of the class, the group with the
most points will be given three English-class participation score.
- CONDUCTOR: PEEM and BABE
Hook: 8 minutes
- 3 pictures will be shown: Nerdy girl with glasses, Muscular man, and scary-looking guy
with tattoo. After the picture is shown one by one, students are asked to identify their
hobbies and personalities based on only what they saw. (6 minutes, around 2 minutes
for each picture)
- Expected Student Answer:
- Nerdy Girl - Reading Books
- Muscular Man - Fitness
- Tattooed guy - Something negative
- The teachers then reveal to the student that their answers are incorrect. None of the
people acts based on their physical appearance (Nerdy Girl - National Basketball Player),
and what the students just did is the most basic example of Stereotyping. (1 minute)
- Another basic example is going around the room and asks them the first thing to come
to mind when they saw the picture of Indians and/or Chinese. (1 minute)
- Keep the word, Stereotyping, in mind as it will be important later in the class.
- CONDUCTOR: PEEM
Instruction: Understanding the meaning of Racism 5 minutes
- We will give a really long and complex meaning of Racism: Prejudice, discrimination, or
hate directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that all members
of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to
distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
- After that, a competition will start where we ask the students to shorten the length of
the meaning. (4 minutes)
- Intro to Causes: Why Hate? >> We hate because we stereotype >> Why stereotype?
- CONDUCTOR: LINK
Identifying the causes of Racism 10 minutes
- Show 3 incomplete topics in on the slide with blanks. Students are required to discuss,
fill in the blank and understand the main causes of stereotyping (8 minutes)
- Teachers ask the students what are the missing words(2 minutes)
- CONDUCTOR: BABE and LINK
Effects of racism 10 minutes
- We will conduct an “Help me get a job” activity. The teacher will be CEOs of Carrot Corp
while students are interviewers for the company. Only one student from each group will
receive a prompt as a job applicant. One student will be a 30-year old, experienced, and
skilled applicant, while another will be a newly-graduated, inexperienced, lazy and
unskilled applicant.
- Each team must fill out the application form by asking the chosen student.
- Expected Outcome: One group will have a really good application form, and another one
will be really bad.
- Ask someone to read their application form and ask the class whom do they think will
get accepted.
- The CEO accepts the bad application form because it turns out that the person is white.
(Revealing the photo on the application form)
- Conclusion by the teachers ( This is one of the example… etc. ). Introduce the idea of
“The Ugly Cycle”
- CONDUCTOR: JUMP, PRAEW, and PEEM
Assessment: 15 minutes
- Let students watch “I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White” (5 minutes)
- Give students set of questions and give them time to discuss answer in the group (4
minutes)
- Each group choose a representative to come up in front of the class and share their
group ideas. (4 minutes, 2 minutes for each group hopefully)
- We draw the conclusion based on students answer. (2 minutes)
- CONDUCTOR: BABE
