Do Now: Is there anyone who is the quintessential example of some stereotype? Is it possible to be so simple?
Homework: Enjoy the weekend!
Inquiry: What are ways to disrupt stereotypes? How does comedy reflect on or deal with stereotypes?
Objective: SWBAT construct their own ways to disrupting stereotypes.
Agenda:
- Do now discussion.
- Stereotypes and Comedy.
- Part A: In your opinion, do these jokes reinforce or break down the stereotype they are talking about?
- Class discussion.
- Part B: Do people sometimes conform to the stereotype that they are labeled with? Is it easier to conform than to resist a stereotype?
- Finish reading “Black Men and Public Space.”
- In “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples explains strategies he used to break down the stereotypes that people have of him. Think of two specific situations and what you can do to disrupt the stereotype that someone may have of you. (This requires you to be more mature and aware than the people you are dealing with who tend to be immature and/or simply ignorant.)
