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Responding to Online Hate Speech

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP | GRADE 8

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How should you respond to

• nline hate speech?

Essential Question

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Learning Objectives

Use a circle discussion structure to strengthen their class community. Explore the nature of hate speech by discussing whether it could happen at their school. Identify specific actions to positively affect a situation involving hate speech.

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What is your favorite or least favorite thing about being a student at this school? Why? Take a moment to think silently about this question.

WARM UP: REFLECT

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Norms

• 1. Be your most mature self
• 2. Speak your truth.
• 3. Respect others' viewpoints.
• 4. Don't interrupt.
• 5. Disagree respectfully.

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Form a large discussion circle (or 3 smaller circles)

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ACTIVITY: CIRCLE UP!

1. The teacher will choose one person to share first. 2. The person will have one minute to share his or her response . 3. The next person to the left will then have one minute to share. It will go in a circle until everyone has shared. 4. You can pass sharing by saying pass.

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A verbal attack targeting someone because of a group they belong to—e.g., their race, gender, religion, ability, sexual orientation, etc.

Hate speech

KEY VOCABULARY

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Scenario: Nancy is an eighth-grader at the local middle school. Nancy is Mexican American and has pictures of her family on her social media account. Many of her friends and family have made comments on the pictures in Spanish. A student from her school sees the pictures and makes anonymous, derogatory comments about Nancy's family, including comments about their immigration status and jokes about them getting deported. Some other students see these derogatory comments and anonymously join in. Reflect: Think about your experiences at your school and what your school is

• like. Could a scenario like this happen at your school? How likely would it be?

Make sure to include your reasons when you share.

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ACTIVITY: COULD IT HAPPEN HERE?

1. Raise your hand if you would like to go first. 2. Share in a clockwise circle, one minute per person, just as you did in the previous round.

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ACTIVITY: FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION

1. Raise your hand if you would like to ask someone a follow-up question or add to your original comment. 2. Keep your follow-up to one minute or less. 3. Call on someone else with their hand up when you are finished speaking.

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In the scenario, what are some ways that students could have responded?

What would you do?

KEY VOCABULARY

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