CEClang.45
TITLE: Bibliotherapy - Prejudice
AUTHOR: Connie Eastburn, Mapleton School District
Mapleton, OR
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: Appropriate for primary or
intermediate. Language Arts
OVERVIEW: Teaching children about the perils of prejudice
is challenging. The book The One Hundred Dresses, written
about 50 years ago addresses this subject. While the faces
have changed, the lessons remain.
OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
1. Utilize their many varied talents in completing a
set of activities.
2. Record their responses in journal form.
RESOURCES:
Teacher materials = Book/The One Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes.
Training in the Talents Unlimited Model.
Student materials = A "Talents" trained teacher,
journal, pen, pencil, colors
ACTIVITIES:
1. List the many, varied events or set of circumstances
which might have caused Wanda to make up the "dresses
game?"
2. Describe Wanda using many, varied single words.
3. Describe how the students felt after Wanda's family
moved. Use many, varied, single words to describe
their feelings.
4. Have you ever hurt someone's feelings and gotten in
trouble for it? What did you do? Share by recording
in your journal, a time when you felt like the girls in
the story felt after receiving the letter from Wanda's
father.
5. Design a dress for Wanda's collection using many,
varied, and unusual ideas.
6. In the story, the school class had a drawing contest.
Design a unique contest for the class. Tell what you
are going to do. Tell all the materials you will need.
Tell the steps you need to follow in order to make your
plan work. List any problems you may have, and then
write ways you can improve your plan.
7. What are the many, varied strategies the children could
use to prevent future problems with minority students?
8. Write a letter of apology to Wanda and her family, for
the way she was treated by the class. Use many, varied
complete thoughts.
9. Some people say that prejudice is like a poison that
makes people treat others in a negative way. Think
about some things that are poison and complete this
stem. "Prejudice is as poisonous as . . ." Complete
the sentence with many, varied phrases.
Adopted from: A Novel Approach to Talents
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