Sept. 9, 2013

Activity Name and Content	Activity Choices and Description	When to finish this…
Starter	Starter #10 (10mins): Divide your paper into two sections. Label them male and female stereotypes. Generate as many stereotypes you can come up with. Include: roles at home and society, intelligence, what each are good at, what jobs they fill, who they have relationships with, etc. Really push what you know. When you are done come up to the board and write 2 in each section. If one is already up there write a different one.	Start of class
Gender Videos	Gender videos and questions (25mins): (write your answers on a separate piece of paper) Gender Roles – Interviews with Kids: 1.       How have children been socialized to see gender roles?   Stereotyping women in Media: 1.       What is the message to women? Media Representations of Women: 1.       How can media influence a women’s identity? Fotoshop by Adobe: 1.       What is the message in this spoof? 2.       What does this imply about female gendered stereotypes? Tony Porter: A call to Men: 1.       What is in the “man box”? 2.       What are the social implications of these ideas of male gender? 3.       How does this impact woman? American Masculinity: 1.       What are the messages associated with being a man? 2.       What do men have to hide from the public? My Princess Boy (6mins 7sec): How did his mom try to socialize him? Are there only two gender roles or is it a spectrum? Why do we have gender issues in this country? Engaging Men in Critical Discussions on Media Representations of Women 1.       Are gender stereotypes oK? 2.       When do they have a negative impact?	By the end of class
Daily Question Discussion	Freewrite (15 min) For the next 15 mins freely write on the questions below. Make sure to include evidence, actual ideas and data, from the videos. Self-esteem is part of identity, how we see ourselves. So when doubt is pushed through media how does it affect you? How is what you think about yourself construct your identity? 1.       How has gender stereotypes influenced your identity? 2.       How can you include the ideas from this video in your essay on your identity?	By the end of class
Reading	Mexican Whiteboy  Read and annotate pages 40-57	By the start of class tomorrow