12 Angry Men presentation ideas

I will deal with prompt B: helping students to read the play by “making connections to: personal events and situations”

Essential questions: How do human beings value one another? What does it mean to be part of a group? What is the “power of perception”?

GOAL: to have students appreciate people’s differences

Frontloading activity: Cliques in HS

1. Have students raise hands and name all the groups of social hierarchy in HS; I’ll list them on the board as they are named
   (jocks/athletes, nerd, musicians, loners, thespians, hipsters, rockers, geeks, emos, preps, etc.)
2. Have students list in their journal what group they think they fit into best; then have them list any other groups that they may fit into
3. Ask students: what makes someone a member of a group? What makes them stay in one group/ are there pressures associated with leaving a group?....class discussion

Then…kinesthetic survey

1. I will hand out “survey sheet” where students will list their name, their classmate’s name, and what it is they have in common
2. Students will then get up and go around the room filling in the sheet until they have found at least one thing in common with every classmate.
3. Talk about what we found/ have a few students share out….different threads of commonalities could include: appearance, family, home, life experiences, hobbies, interests, foods, cultures, goals, etc. But I will push them to think of other similarities that go below the surface of a person

Journal: write about one connection with a classmate that was unexpected or surprising to you. What was it, and most importantly, why is it important? Were you from different social groups? Better yet, did different social groups find something in common?