What
Does Injustice Look Like?
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Grade 6-8 Assessment Tool for Video 1: Gaining a
Perspective on Injustice
Exit Expectations: Grade 6, 7, 8
SS 3. Students understand the democratic principles of justice,
equality, responsibility, and freedom and apply them to real-life situations.
(AE2.14)
SS 6. Students interact effectively and work cooperatively with the many diverse ethnic and cultural groups of our nation and world. (AE2.17)
SS 9.
Students understand, analyze, and interpret historical events, conditions
trends, and issues to develop historical perspective. (AE2.20)
Situation: In the We Are ALL Different video: Gaining a Perspective on Injustice, the students of the Jr. Council on Diversity discovered that the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII and the profiling of Arab-Americans since 9/11 are examples of injustice. They also learned through their experience at school that injustice often means different things to different people.
Question:
A.
Using at
least two terms from the video, explain the word injustice.
B.
Discuss and
compare the experience of the students losing their field trip with the
experiences of Japanese-Americans and Arab-Americans as an illustration of
injustice.
Scoring Guide:
Level 4 |
Student response thoroughly explains injustice using
two or more terms from the video and demonstrates how injustice is
illustrated by the examples in the video. |
Level 3 |
Student response clearly explains injustice using at
least two terms from the video and demonstrates how injustice is
illustrated by the examples in the video. |
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Level 2 |
. Student response gives basic explanation of
injustice using one term from the video and demonstrates how injustice is
illustrated by one of the examples in the video. |
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Level 1 |
Student response gives limited explanation of injustice and discusses one of the examples. |
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Level 0 |
Student response is incorrect or irrelevant. |
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Blank |
No response |
For
teachers only:
Definition
of injustice:
1. The quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
2. violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or
treatment. 3.
an unjust act; wrong; unfairness.
Definition
of justice:
1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral
rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of
ground or reason: to complain with justice.
3. the moral principle determining just conduct.
4. conformity to this principle, as manifested in conduct; just conduct,
dealing, or treatment. 5. the
administering of deserved punishment or reward.
6. the maintenance or administration of what is just by law, as by
judicial or other proceedings: a court of justice.
7. judgment of persons or causes by judicial process: to administer
justice in a community. 8. a
judicial
officer;
etc.
Key
Terms From Video : rightness, joking,
double standard, fairness, property damage, unfairness, freedom, equality, bad
treatment, unequal treatment, illegal, unjustified, racial.
(Joking
and property damage are included because of the need to establish the
difference in point of view/terms used.)
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