Do Now: What do you think Zimmerman was thinking when he chased down Trayvon?
Homework: News article response by Friday.
Inquiry: What is a stereotype and how is it formed? What is a “socially constructed process”?
Objective: SWBAT construct their own understanding of stereotypes and where they come from.
Agenda:
- Do-Now and discussion.
- Video on Stereotypes: “Stereotypes in Media” from Discovery.
- Part A: Body Biography: Draw the most stereotypical depiction of someone of any race or cultural group.
- Where do these associations come from?
- Explanation of a socially constructed process: Where ideas and associations are built over time by the ideas that people share in society.
- Reading: Young, Black, Male, and Stalked by Bias
- Part C Writing Reflection: Beyond Zimmerman, what was Trayvon Martin a victim of? (Use the article to support your answer.)
