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Lesson Plan, Video, Activity Model Minority Myth

  • Grade Level 3rd-12th Grade
  • Time Period 1950 - 1969
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Introduction

This lesson will explore the model minority myth, introduced in the 1960s by publications such as The New York Times Magazine and U.S. News & World Report, applied on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and examine the realities and experiences of this non-monolithic community
Objectives

  • Students will be able to define the model minority myth and identify the reasons it was created.
  • Students will be able to analyze the impact of the model minority myth on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs).
  • Students will learn how the model minority myth has shaped the relationship of the AANHPI community with other groups of color in the United States.

Essential Questions

  • How and why did the model minority myth develop?

  • Does the model minority myth present an incomplete, potentially stereotypical view of AANHPIs? If so, how and what are the costs of this incomplete view?

  • What are the realities of the experiences of different AANHPI communities?

  • Does the model minority myth serve as a tool to create division between different groups of Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? If so, how?