v
Informational
knowledge- knowing that something needs to be done to legalize gay marriage.
Procedural knowledge- Knowing how to go about this change and what steps the government would have to do to legalize gay marriage.
Procedural knowledge- Knowing how to go about this change and what steps the government would have to do to legalize gay marriage.
v Steps:
1. The U.S would need to be more educated about homosexuality. They need to realize that even though someone is homosexual, that they are the same as everyone else.
2. Large amounts of people would need to sign petitions showing our government that we want gay marriage legalized.
3. These petitions would need to be sent to congress.
1. The U.S would need to be more educated about homosexuality. They need to realize that even though someone is homosexual, that they are the same as everyone else.
2. Large amounts of people would need to sign petitions showing our government that we want gay marriage legalized.
3. These petitions would need to be sent to congress.
v
Critical
Attributes of same sex marriage:
Understanding that homosexuals are the same as everyone else. They live,
breath, and feel just like everyone else.
The students must also understand that they can make it possible for
same sex marriage to be legal. There are petitions they can sign and also by
voting makes a huge difference.
Just this week and article came out talking about how it will soon be legal for citizens to petition for same sex marriage. The Supreme court must agree with the Court of Appeals ruling on the Marriage Act, which is the federal ban on same-sex marriage petition, will end. Here is the link if you are interested! http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/citizenship-now/petitioning-same-sex-partners-legal-article-1.1189778
The concept of understanding how important same-sex marriage is can be taught in many different ways. One excellent way to teach it is to have a group activity that focuses on discrimination. We often do not look at marriage as something that can or cannot be discriminated on...but it is. In the class, the students could be broken up into several groups. The groups would be handed cards. If you receive a card with a word or phrase on it. The category could be eye color, height, ethnicity, etc. If an individual received a card with a characteristic that belonged to them, they would be forced to leave the group and sit along. The role play game would continue until there were only two "winners" left, while everyone else was separated. The goal of the activity is to teach what discrimination feels like and to be the odd man out.
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