1. DATE
April 6, 2015
Reminders
Don’t Let your struggle become your identity
Do Now
Take one of each handout from the front desk. Begin the quickwrites. When you are done wait for my instructions.
AGENDA
Quickwrite
Discuss Responses
Read and Annotate “Oppressive Power of Language”
Chalk Talk
Unit Intro
Preview texts
Judith Butler: Phylosophe
LAST CLASS:
BNW Final
NEXT CLASS:
What is gender?
History of gender and gender constructs
Boys who wear dresses
HOMEWORK
Read and annotate Phylosophe
LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
Introduce the unit Language, Gender, Culture

2. On the back of the article write down a list of examples of words or phrases you’ve used, heard people use, or had used against you that you would deem oppressive.
Oppressive Language
When you are done, go to the board and share one or two examples.

3. Language, Gender, Culture

4. Unit Overview
Question gender norms and the ways social pressures enforce those norms
Reflect on our own experiences of gender-based social pressures
Deepen understanding of the relationships between language, gender, culture, and identity

5. Unit Objectives Students will be able to…
Explain how language and cultural norms shape identities
Explain what is gender and how does it shape our identities
Descriptively outline a speech
Analyze and use evidence to support their position on the topic
Evaluate and describe authors’ stylistic choices
Use writing to propose social change

6. To begin…
For each of the four following texts in this module (Brooks, Tannen, Young, and Lorde), do the following:
Examine the titles, and make a prediction about the content of each piece
Note the types of texts and genres (New York Times Op-Ed piece versus book excerpt), and make any relevant predictions about the content or rhetorical stance of each piece
Examine the brief author biographies provided below, and then imagine how each author’s identity and gender—as described in those biographies—might influence the text’s language, content, or purpose.

7. Introduce Language, Gender, Culture LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
DATE
April 8, 2015
Reminders
Welcome to the “Karma Café”. There is no menu, you will get served what you deserve
Do Now
Take out your reader, your predictions from last class, and something to write with.
AGENDA
Return BNW
Gender norms TED talk
Discuss gender norms and gender binaries
Gender roles activity
Phylosophe predictions, read and annotate
LAST CLASS:
Introduce Language, Gender, Culture
NEXT CLASS:
Boys who wear dresses
HOMEWORK
Work on senior project. Buy a portfolio and sheet protectors. Work on your resume.
LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
Explore the concept of gender, gender norms, gender roles, and gender nonconformity.

8. TEDx Understanding the Complexities of Gender: Sam Killermann

9. Gender Spectrum Gender Binary
A linear model, ranging from 100% male to 100% female, with various states of masculine and feminine in between. The gender continuum or matrix is an multidimensional extension of the spectrum that includes additional gender identities outside of the spectrum.
The classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It is one general type of a gender system.

10. Judith Butler “Phylosophe”
First, read the transcript in your reader. Next, re-read and annotate. As you annotate identify:
Use of persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos)
Tone shift – What is Butler’s attitude toward the subject? Does it shift/change? If so, where? What words indicated the shift?
Mood shift – At any point did you feel different about the topic? When? Why? What changed your feeling on the subject?