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Equality
Under the
Law
Teaching
Strategy/Aid
s
Concept
formation,
List of
attributes
Teacher
Activity
Student
Activity
Assignment
Recapitulati
on
Show or
provide
attributes
to students
and ask
them to
categorize
them in at
least three
categories
Study the
attributes.
Reach
consensus
in
categorizing
the
attributes.
Write
similarities
and
differences
between
the
categories.
Classifying:
Guided
Practice
Ask students
what are the
critical
attributes of
the concept
Equality
under the
law
List of Attributes:
Giving discounts to all customers, Charging tourist more for entry fee to
museum, All female employee are given maternity leave but not the husband of
the employee, One religious group given concession on bus fare because of their
religious affiliation, Generals and family members given preference because of
their services for the country, Police are more suspicious to one particular
religious group because of the destructive activities of some members in the
group, People who lived on the street are more prone to certain diseases,
Children are required to pay 40% less when they visit the national zoo, We
support the political candidate because he is a Christian, Some teachers give
special treatment to students who appreciate their services and give them gifts, I
vote for the candidate who will do something good for me who is unnecessarily
be impartial, Some like the politician who makes things happen not by
conforming to the established rules but by being enterprising
Differences: In what ways are these statements different?
Similarities: In what ways are these statements similar?
Synthesis: Put together a statement the combine the critical attributes of the
concept. Look over the similarities and differences that we have on the board
and then write a sentence that includes the three most important statements we
have made.
After categorizing, find similarities and differences, individually make at least
three hypotheses and test them. Then together make a generalized statement.
Classifying (Guided Practice): To be done in class.
Im going to put an example on the overhead. I want you to decide whether this example shows
equality under the law or not.
On the evening of December l, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama: Rosa Parks, an African American
seamstress, took the bus because she was feeling particularly tired after a long day in the department
store where she worked as a seamstress. She was sitting in the middle section, glad to be off her feet
at last, when a white man boarded the bus and demanded that her row be cleared because the white
section was full. Mrs. Parks was arrested for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
It was an established rule in the American south (at that time) that African American riders had to sit
at the back of the bus. African American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white
bus rider if it was needed.