Overview
When Eli is required to reduce his son Jack to a single check-mark in front of a race box, it doesn’t sit well with him.

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Grade level and subjects
• Recommended for grades 6-12
• Works in Classroom, Hybrid, and Homeschool settings

Key concepts and terms covered
Character, Discrimination, Holocaust, Identity, Identity politics, Individuality, Marginalization, Multiracial, Race, Segregation, and Sham.

Sample discussion questions
• How did Jack “become black?”
• Bullies used toilet paper to write “nigger deaf mute’ on Eli’s lawn. Each of these words is offensive to someone. Are the words, themselves, offensive or does the intent behind their use (to bully someone, to cause them emotional harm) make them offensive?
• Should one’s race be used to game the system, as Eli asked in the video?
• What other characteristics / lenses do people use to identify others?
• Part of the U.S. government’s support for the use of racial labels is to help it correct past injustices and address current inequalities. Do the government’s good intentions outweigh the problems of forced identification? By continuing to label people by race, do we continue to create new injustices? Explain your reasoning. 9 Outside the Box

What’s in the free teacher’s guide
This printable 51-page Teacher's Guide includes a lesson description, a fill-in viewing guide with answer key, discussion and analysis questions, classroom activities, and a printable quiz.

Standards alignment
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