7th Period: Lunchroom Fight, pt.1

UNIT:

Unit 1: Social Studies Practices

LESSON TITLE:

Lunchroom Fight, pt. 1

STANDARDS:

SSP.01, SSP.02, SSP.03, SSP.04

LESSON OVERVIEW:

Using a school lunchroom fight, students will understand how history can be seen in different perspectives.

OBJECTIVE:

Students will see how events can be seen from different people based on various circumstances.

ASSESSMENT / EVALUATION:

Students will answer questions about the lunchroom fight.

INSTRUCTION:

Imagine that you are the principal of a school and you just found out that there was a fight in the lunchroom during lunch. You’ve asked many students and teachers who witnessed the fight to write down what they saw and who they think started the fight. Unfortunately, you have received many conflicting accounts that disagree not only as to who started the fight, but also as to who was involved and when the fight even started. It’s important to remember that NO ONE is just plain lying.

1. Together with a neighbor sitting right next to you, answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:

     a. Why would there be different stories of the event if no one is just plain lying?

     b. What are the different types of people who might have seen this fight? (e.g., friends of those involved versus people who don’t know the kids who were fighting; those who were fighting versus those who were witnesses; adults versus kids)

     c. What might make one person’s story more believable or plausible than another person’s?

     d. Why might people see or remember things differently?

     e. Who has an interest in one kid getting in trouble instead of another kid? Who was standing where? Could they see the whole event?

     f. The plausibility of the stories themselves (e.g., issues of exaggeration and how the stories fit into what is known about the students’ prior histories). Is the story believable, trustworthy?

     g. Time: Do stories change over time? How might what we remember right after the event differ from what we remember a week later? Does time make the way someone remembers something more or less trustworthy?

2. Put both names (first and last) and take a picture of it and submit in Schoology

3. This assignment is due on Friday, August 20, 2021.