The Nature of Evil: Classic Psychology Experiments & Inhumanity
Through videos and articles, you will explore various stances and rationales about how people can be so inhumane to one another in life and in literature, such as in Night, a memoir, and in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel. You will practice your reading of informational texts, finding helpful facts from them, and creating the structure for an essay by focusing on topic sentences and an introduction.
* Log in to GCPS portal, G Workspace, Google Classroom, and Media Center page * Join and participate in Nearpod. * Watch videos on famous psychology experiments by Milgram & Zimbardo related to human obedience, dehumanization, and social influence. * In Google Classroom, launch a copy of Good & Evil Research Doc & Writing Practice. * Open a copy of the Doc with Sources A, B, & C from here or in Google Classroom. Here are the three sources within the Doc: Source A: "What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?" Source B: "Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38 Transcript of Video" Source C: "Do Good People Turn Evil?" * Starting as a whole class to practice how to do the work, we will begin reading Source A: "What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?" in chunks, choosing and rewriting sentences as directed on the Good and Evil Research Google Doc with the source as indicated. * Log in to GCPS Portal, G Workspace, Google Classroom, & Media Center page. * Scroll to Source B: "Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38 Transcript of Video." While the class watches the video, read along to find your favorite sentences in the transcript so that you know what you want to add to the Good and Evil Research Doc and complete parts one and two of the research table. * Scroll to Source C: "Do Good People Turn Evil?" and begin working on it: Read, copy and paste best sentences/ passages and complete parts one and two of this research table. * Work on the Writing Practice section of the document to focus on introductions as indicated.