Starter #7: To what
degree do you agree with the article you read last night? Are the claims the author made about the
teenage social groups of your gender true in your experience?
Discuss the article with members of your own sex. Do the claims that the article make ring true?
FOUR CORNERS
Gender Norms and Stereotypes
The Good Wife’s Guide (1955) and The Insult that Made Mac a Man (1972)
1. What are the messages about gender norms?
2. Have things changed?
3. What is still the same?
In groups: Brainstorm gender norms and stereotypes for each gender.
“Act Like a Man”
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“Be Ladylike”
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Dove Real Beauty
HOMEWORK: Freewrite #4: How have you been socialized into the norms of your gender? What are some of the influences that have “taught” you how to be your gender, both explicitly and implicitly? What are some examples in your daily life of how you conform to these roles or break away from them?
TAKE THE CONVERSATION TO EDMODO!!
