Gender Socialization

Entrance Procedure: Phones in the door. Write down homework and update agenda with upcoming due dates. Prepare for Jedi Meditation. (3 min of class time)

Objective: Jedis will explore society's gender rules by understanding the terms "social construction," "gender", "socialization", "gender socialization", and "sex." Jedis will create flashcards for #1-11 of the Gender and R&J Vocabulary and then use these terms in their annotations of the article "Tough Guise."

Homework:

• Read 45 (Week 24 due Mon)
• Finish Classwork (due next class)
• Vocabulary Flash Cards 1-11 (due next class)
• Front: #, Word or Phrase, Image
• Back: Formal Definition; in your own words
• Tough Guise Article- Read. Annotate. Answer.
• Asia Map (Due 2/7-2/8; Test is 2/28-3/1)
• Map retakes today at 2:30

1. Explain | The goal of these lessons is to help us learn to have and identify healthier, more respectful relationships.

2. Review Vocab 1-11 |  Model and Discuss

• How to create Vocab flashcards
• Front: #, Word or Phrase, Image
• Back: Formal Definition; in your own words
• Vocab Discussion questions:
• What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see the word gender?
• Is gender the same as biological sex?
• Are we predisposed to certain behavior, or are we taught this?
• If we are taught, from where, whom, or what?

3. How The World Works | Read the passage aloud. Underline gender-specific terms (men/women, boy/girl, male/female, him/her) .

4. Think-Pair-Share

• According to tis reading, which group is in control?
• How do you know? Cite evidence directly from the text.

• What would it be like to grow up in this world is you were male?
• What would it be like to grow up in this world is you were female?

• How are women restricted in this world? How are men?
• Would you rather be a male or female in this world?

• Does this world reflect our world? Why or why not?

5. Reread the passage, changing the underlined parts to the gender counterpart. Discuss the questions above with the changes made to the passage.

6. Society's Gender Rules | Describe society's gender rules about how boys/men and girls/women should act or behave.

7. Video | Gend-o-meter

8. Man Box Teachings | Fill in the chart by recording something that has happened tor that you have experienced that taught you about the man box, or the rules about what it means to be your gender according to society's gender rules.