"Breaking Down Hate Speech"

I selected this lesson, as I feel it is something that is often considered taboo, and goes left alone.  Ideally this issue would be covered throughout a student's life, but sadly, I doubt that this is the case.  Fortunately, this lesson is prepared for high school students, so their critical thinking and analysis skills are fairly developed, and they can really digest this information and understand the psychological consequences of hate speech, and learn that hate speech is unacceptable in online and real life scenarios.

The lesson plan itself is fairly solid.  It advocates for presenting a variety of materials to students to analyze and identify hate speech as it occurs in the source.  Key terms such as prejudice, stereotype, and derogatory are all to be defined by students, which is certainly helpful in students describing the types of hate speech they see.  The only part of the lesson plan that I would omit would be the part that tells students to role-play scenarios with hate speech.  I think a much more effective alternative would be to watch video clips of hate speech, and ask for students' reactions.