04.30 - Typical Gender Characteristics and Hunger Games Themes

At the beginning of class today, we returned to work with the gender characteristics that people identified as "typically" male and female yesterday. This was in the form of an activity that asked people to sort and group similar words together and then name the different groups of words they came up.

When everyone had had an opportunity to complete their categorization and labeling of word groups, a variety of people shared out words groups they came up with (see below).

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Next, we took a look at what it's like to consider these categories and identify how they may come up in our everyday culture. On the recommendation of a student in our class, we took a look at a clip from the "Red Green Show" (see below).

After watching the video, we discussed the ways in which Red Green exhibited traits from the categories we identified as being "typically" male and female. Categories that people saw as being particularly relevant were the male categories "Work Ethic" and "Dedicated" as well as the female category "2000's" (with a lot of emphasis on creativity).

The work we did with the "Red Green Show" and gender characteristics is similar to what we will be doing with The Hunger Games.

Next, we began working with The Hunger Games by taking a look at selected vocabulary from the first chapter and sorting this vocabulary into categories like we just did with the gender characteristics. Everyone had the rest of the period to finish working with this material. Those people who were not able to finish should do so for homework.

Handouts:
Typical Gender Characteristics Categories
The Hunger Games Vocabulary Categories


Homework:

If you did not do so in class, complete the Hunger Games Vocabulary Categories activity.

Prepare for the unit 3 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.

If you have not done so already, complete sections 1, 2, and 3 of the occupations research paper.
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Complete any unfinished assignments.

Revise any assignments scoring below a 92.

 

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