Acceptable & Accessible: Looking Back
AGES: 12+
TIME: 1 class lesson
MATERIALS: Timeline worksheet, materials for making timeline (can be digital or paper)
STEPS:
Using a long piece of bulletin board paper or poster board, draw a line 21 inches long. Mark off each inch on your line. (Or digital equivalent)
Starting with the year “0” at the very beginning of the line, assign a century to each inch-mark all the way up to 2100.
Number each CE (AD) year on the list of dates provided, starting with “29: Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a Roman...” as #1.
Insert the number for each of these years in their appropriate place on the 50cm timeline you made. Start by writing “1” where the year 29 should be, between O and 100.
What patterns do you notice? Which centuries are the busiest? Which centuries are the least busy? Why?
DISCUSSION:
When is the word “handicap” officially replaced by the word “disability” in the U.S. laws? What is the difference between the two words? Is there a difference between the phrases “a disabled person” and “a person with a disability”?
Words are always changing. What word do you think might be next?
Is there still work to do for civil rights? What more can be done? How can you get involved?