Ethnic Studies · Week 5 · Identity and Belonging
Stereotypes and the Single Story
Analyzing how stereotypes form in media and older textbooks and noticing the quick judgments our own minds make about people we do not know.
- Students will
- Students explain how stereotypes form through repeated, incomplete portrayals, identify bias in a media example, and describe how adding more sources makes a story fuller.
- SEL skill
- Notice a quick judgment in your own thinking and slow it down by asking for more evidence
- What it looks like
- Students notice the quick judgments their own minds make and use thoughts and emotions to think more carefully.
- Content focus
- Stereotypes and the single story
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
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What you get
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Standards
- ESMC.Systems of Power: California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum theme, Systems of Power
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP2 Identify bias and prejudice in historical interpretations. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D4.4.9-12 Critique the use of claims and evidence in arguments for credibility.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.
More self-awareness activities for Ethnic Studies
- The Stories I Carry Self-awarenessStudents create an identity map of the names, languages, places, and traditions they choose to share and name the historian identity they bring to the course.
- Black Californians Building Community Self-awarenessExploring the life of Biddy Mason, who won her freedom in a Los Angeles court in 1856 and became a landowner and philanthropist, and naming the goals that motivate students.
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