Role Play Suggestions
Demonstrating the absence of the Civil Society attributes represented in vocabulary words.
Divide the class into four groups, cut these apart on the lines and give one word/role-play to each group. Ask them to create a 30 second role-play using the idea on the piece of paper, or one of their own, to illustrate the lack or absence of the concept indicated.
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Justice - (injustice, bigotry, stereotype, discrimination, unfairness, inequity) A telephone conversation between a possible tenant seeking a rental. Callers use voices representing different ethnicities or socio-economic status and is told there are no rentals available until the caller “sounds” white and educated.
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Peace - (war, violence, disorder, conflict) A person sitting next to another person who is taping his/her pencil. The first person saying he/she is sick and tired of a the tapping, taking the pencil, breaking it in half and throwing it on the floor.
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Kindness – (meanness, thoughtlessness, viciousness, malevolence, harshness) A person talking to someone and making a negative comparison of him/her to a third person, and saying he/she is worthless compared to the third party and will never amount to anything. ***************************************************************************************************
Tolerance - (intolerance, impatience, disrespect) A line of people is waiting to pay in a store, the first person is obviously elderly and is moving slowly to get out their money and is having difficulty in hearing and understanding the checkout person. The person behind them is obviously impatient and begins to use body language that communicates their impatience as well as imitating the elderly person in a derogatory way in an attempt to amuse his/her companions.