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Unit question: To what extent does power or the lack of power affect individuals? What
does power have to do with fairness and justice?
Lesson question: What are the criteria for defining racial segregation? How did apartheid
laws in South Africa align with these criteria?
Key terms/concepts:
Racial Segregation - The separation of one group of people from another based on race. For
example, racial segregation can involve laws or customs that require different groups to use
different facilities and live in separate areas.
Multiracial - Made up of people from several ethnic groups.
Ethnic groups - A group of people sharing a common cultural background.
Apartheid - The former official South African policy of separating people according to race.
Apartheid gave the majority of the political and economic power to whites.
Distribution - The way people or things are spread out over an area or space. Distribution
can also refer to the way resources, power, or goods are divided among people or groups.
Objectives:
Students will be able to look at examples of racial segregation and develop criteria for
defining the term.
Students will be able to take the criteria and apply it to examples/non-examples.
Students will be able to explain that the central purpose of apartheid was racial segregation.
Assessment plan: Collect the bell work/exit ticket. Pear Deck will allow me to view student
answers so I can go back and see whether students were successful and able to grasp the
concept.
Based on the characteristics you listed above, in the area below list the criteria for defining
racial segregation..
Example or Nonexample?
Using the criteria we developed as a class to define racial segregation, determine whether
the examples below are examples or nonexamples of racial segregation.