Status Anxiety
The following are several activities that we do in my classes around the topic of Cliques and Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety- summary video
This is my five minute video clip summarizing the lesson. I send it out to parents the week we are discussing it. It uses some of the same clips we talk about in the unit down below. You can use it either as a intro or a summary at the end or you can send it out to parents.
Cliques class Discussion Questions
Put Students into groups of 2-4 have them discuss these two questions and write down their answers on a piece of paper. Discuss in class everyone’s answers afterward
Have a discussion on how it compares to other schools they've been to. What causes it to be more or less?
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Status Anxiety Questions for students
I typically put these on a pear deck so students can answer these questions on their devices and then we talk about the answers during class
Cliques Notes Part 1Cliques and Status Video Clips and Notes
Here are a bunch of questions to go with this slideshow. In class I may or may not have them write everything down, sometimes I just ask the questions without the notes but these are the questions I typically ask while watching each clip. This will often take multiple classes.
- Cliques and Status Video Clips and Notes
Here are a bunch of questions to go with this portion of the slideshow. Again this may take multiple class periods depending on how the discussion goes.
The bottom file are questions for the Sneetches video clip which they can do in groups.
Meme Tutorial.mp4Using this template I have them make a meme about Status Anxiety
Below it is a tutorial video on how to use it
Make a clever meme with the attached document. Relate it to the topic of Status Anxiety.
The Definition of Status Anxiety is: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser