Monday, May 16, 2016

#24 Fourth Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / stereotypes / Grade 10-12

Overall Objective: students will be able to discuss the stereotypes

Language Objective: students will be able to practice their speaking, reading and critical thinking skills.

Civic Education Objective: students will be able to understand the concept of stereotypes

Curriculum Connection:

Class Context and Needs:  Mixed ability class.

Materials: Computer, whiteboard, markers, mini boards, projector, sticky papers.

Activities: Warm-up, speaking, reading, gap-filling, reading, writing.

Assessment: As an assessment students will create a little poem “Just Because” based on stereotypes.

Overall Objective: students will be able to discuss the stereotypes
Language Objective: students will be able to practice their speaking, reading and critical thinking skills
Civic Objective: students will be able to understand the concept of stereotypes
Stage of Lesson
Activity
Time
Warm Up

To introduce the topic of the lesson, teacher step-by-step shows the slides of a well-known joke and tells the students to finish the sentences using their own associations. Students work in groups and share their own ideas.

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Activity 1

Then teacher shows the ending of the jokes and puts these kind of  questions: 1. Why do you think that the Heaven is where the cooks are Italian or mechanics are German? 2. Why do you think that the Hell is where the cooks are British or the lovers are Swiss? Etc. Students will discuss these questions and teacher by putting other questions will lead them to the  main topic of the lesson-Stereotypes.
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Activity 2

Teacher distributes the texts about the topic and tells the students to read them and pay attention to the nationalities and stereotypes given in the text. Teacher tells them to underline the nationalities and  their characteristics (They can underline the key words) (handout 1)
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Activity 3

Teacher  draws the graphic organizer on the whiteboard as well as distributes the copies of the organizer in groups. Students look through the text again and fill in the organizer. Then they do the same activity on the whiteboard. (handout 2)
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Activity 4

Myth or Reality. Teacher tells the students to write  these words on their mini boards  and she reads out examples of common stereotypes, for example: Blondes are not smart or people who are fat are lazy and etc. According to their beliefs students show either Myth or Reality sides. If there is different ideas students discuss the issue.
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Assessment

Teacher tells students that they will write a simple poem “Just Because” based on stereotypes about their own identities  (example: Just because I am young, it doesn’t mean I am naïve, doesn’t mean I don’t care, it doesn’t mean I will “understand someday”, I am a human being, etc) and distributes “Just Because” worksheets. If there is time left they read their poems or stick the papers on the board. (handout 3)
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The English are cold and reserved, Brazilians are lively and fun-loving, and Japanese are shy and hardworking-these are the examples of national stereotypes which are widely believed, not only by other nationalities but also by many people among the nationalities themselves. But how much truth is there in such stereotypes? Two psychologists, Robert McCrae and Antonio Terracciano, have investigated the subject and the results of their research are surprising. They found that people from a particular country do share some general characteristics, but that these characteristics are often very different from the stereotype.
     In the largest survey of its kind, a team of psychologists used personality tests to establish shared characteristics among 49 different nationalities around the world. They then interviewed thousands of people from these same groups and asked them to describe typical members of their own nationality. In most cases the stereotype (how nationalities saw themselves) was very different from the results of the personality tests (reality).
    For example, Italians and Russians thought of themselves as extroverts and sociable, but the personality tests showed them to be much more introvert than they imagined. The Spanish saw themselves as very extrovert, but also as rather lazy. In fact, the research showed them to be only averagely extrovert and much more conscientious than they thought. Brazilians were quite neurotic-the opposite of their own view of themselves. The Czechs and the Argentinians thought of themselves as bad-tempered and unfriendly, but they turned out to be among the friendliest of all nationalities. The English were the nationality whose own stereotype was the furthest from reality. While they saw themselves as reserved and closed , Dr McCrae research showed them to be among the most extrovert and open-minded of the  groups studied.
   The only nationality group in the whole study where people saw themselves as they really are was the Poles- not especially extrovert, and slightly neurotic.

          Nationality
Stereotype / Widely          believed Concept
           Reality
British
Cold/reserved
Extrovert/open
Brazilians


Japanese


Italians


Russians


Czechs and Argentinians


Spanish



Just Because

Just because I am …………………………………………………………
      I am not ……………………………………………………
      I am not……………………………………………………
      I am not……………………………………………………
               I am ………………………………………………....
Just because I am ………………………………………………………..
     I am not…………………………………………………….
     I am not…………………………………………………….
     I am not…………………………………………………….
              I am……………………………………………………
Just because I am…………………………………………………………
     I am not…………………………………………………….
     I am not…………………………………………………….
     I am not…………………………………………………….
             I am…………………………………………………….


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