Stop the Pandemic: Step 2: Take Different Points of View: Victims, Survivors, and Frontline Workers
Step 2: Take Different Points of View
You can click on any of the slides above to go to that Step.
2.1. Overview of Step 2: Take Different Points of View
In Step 2, the objective is to try to stand in the shoes of people from different backgrounds who have been impacted much more harshly by the pandemic.
Below are some of the videos and articles included above in Step 1: Topic #9 and additional ones.: We are going to explore the impact of the pandemic on the elderly, the poor, unemployed, people of color, Native Americans, and frontline workers. In this Step 2, you're going to use your perspective taking skills to explain and compare the points of view of some of the persons and groups in these videos.
Democratic and Academic Competencies
In this second step—take different points of view, you are challenged to take the points of view of several of the persons in the vides and articles. The objective here is for you to take, coordinate, and integrate the various points of view of the persons affected by this pandemic.
Academic Competencies to Apply in This Step 2:
Academic Vocabulary: Learn and use core Academic Vocabulary to discuss the points of view of survivors, front line workers, and people from around the world.
Deep Comprehension: Critically analyze and reflect on these stories.
Democratic Competencies to Apply in This Step 2:
Democratic Values: Explore the values of these persons with an emphasis on love and freedom.
Social-Emotional Skills: Social Perspective Taking Skills: Take the points of view of the different groups affected by the pandemic.
2.2. Introduction to Social Perspective Taking
Social perspective taking includes the ability to express your own point of view , to take the points of view of others, and to coordinate their views with your views. In Step 2, you are going to be challenged to take the points of view of five different groups of people who have been affected by the pandemic. You will first read about their experiences and then you will have the opportunity to try to stand in their shoes and present their points of view as if you were them.
Scroll down the Sway below for a brief introduction to social perspective taking skills.
2.3. Explore the Points of View of the Persons and Groups Affected by the Pandemic
Click on the Sway below and review the experiences of individuals and groups who have much more harshly affected than other groups.
- Impact on Elderly
- Impact on Native Americans
- Impact on Poor and Unemployed
- Impact on People of Color
- Impact on Frontline Workers
2.4. Analyze and Compare the Experiences of Different Individuals or Groups
After reviewing the experiences of the individuals and groups presented above, choose two or more individuals or groups to empathize with and then analyze and compare their experiences.
2.5. Introduce Yourself and Stand in Their Shoes
After you have completed exploring the experience of two of the individuals or groups presented above, click on the button below and go to Flipgrid where you will be challenged to stand in the shoes of one of these persons or groups.
2.6. Next Steps
In this Step 2, you have sought to stand in the shoes of people and groups who have been most negatively affected by the pandemic, present their points of view, and then to compare these points of view.
In Step 3, you will analyze the statistics and facts related to the pandemic.
In Step 4, you will listen to these stories again and this time reflect on the values that helped them survive and cope with the pandemic. Then you will share your own stories about the pandemic or stories you have heard about and which have deeply affected you, focusing on the important values in those stories.
In Step 5, you will listen to speeches and proposal advocating ways to stop the pandemic.
In Step 6, you will then develop your own proposal and present your speech.
In Step 7, you will listen to the speeches of your classmates and seek to take their points of view as you respond to their proposals.
Finally in Step 8, you will coordinate and integrate these different points of view, synthesize these different proposals, and cast your votes (take a survey) where you rate the different proposals.
Revised 3/6/2021.