Group A Check-In Post Teaching
- We want to teach about the division of classes that begins in high school and continues through the rest of life. We want to teach that dividing people into groups based on class or into cliques like high school can lead to violence and bullying. Dividing people by class helps no one and that’s what we want to teach others.
- We want to teach this because we believe that it is an ongoing problem that transcends high school and can hurt many people. It can affect people for their entire lives. If we can teach people how harmful it is while still in high school, it can better their lives as adults.
- The main point we want get across is that social classes only create further division between people and that they are very harmful.
- This comes from The Outsiders readings and discussions.
- We will be using the book The Outsiders as well as our papers written about the book. We might need to do further research with people currently in high school to see if cliches and social classes being divided is still prominent like it was when we were in school.
- We aren’t sure yet whose graphic we are going to use, but a few of us really focused on the division based on class and money between the Greasers and the Socs in our papers so we will have to discuss a little more about which parts we are going to use.
Hey,
So I think the what you want to teach might be a little broad. I think you are totally correct about it’s importance. But some of what you want to teach is almost like a philosophy and a belief, and it is not something that anyone can necessarily prove with The Outsiders.
I think your main point though is a helpful way to begin narrowing down. You say:
The main point we want get across is that social classes only create further division between people and that they are very harmful.
I think maybe you might focus on how the authors in this course want us to think about the relationship between the danger of social classes in youth culture and the danger of social classes in society. Do they suggest that the former merely reflective of the latter? Or that the former help create or reproduce the latter?
Two things. Since this course is a literature course, the chances are you will need to articulate whatever it is you teach in terms of literature. We want to teach these students that these three novels put together ask us to think about X or Y? Then you show it, and then maybe you ask the participants to actually do the thinking that the novel asks for.
Second thing: I think unless what you want to teach is specifically something about the Outsiders, you will probably want to use more than one text from the class.