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Today’s Plan. Agenda. 1. 2. Classroom Rules Syllabus Class Website. Learning Objectives: After today’s class, you will be able to: Listen to and take notes from a recorded lecture. Predict conversations and practice speaking.
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Agenda 1 2 Classroom Rules Syllabus Class Website • Learning Objectives: After today’s class, you will be able to: • Listen to and take notes from a recorded lecture. • Predict conversations and practice speaking. • Learn new strategies for taking notes and preparing to write a extended response.
What is a Stereotype? In what ways do people stereotype other people? Why do people create stereotypes? How does a stereotype start?
Stereotyping… The Danger of a Single Story
Now You Will Listen to a Lectureand Take Notes What do you think are some good note taking strategies?
Note Taking Strategies • Part One: Active Listening • Pay attention to lecturer and listen for main ideas as well as supporting details • Pay close attention when the lecturer is analyzing, synthesizing, making lists
Lecture Note Questions Set 1 Where is the speaker from? How old was the speaker when she travelled to study? What does the speaker do for a living? What does the speaker’s father and mother do for work? What city is the speaker from?
Lecture Notes Set 2 1. According to the lecturer, how are single stories created? 2. What was the lecturer’s single story of Mexicans? 3. The lecturer quoted a British writer for his description of Africans. Who was the writer and what was the description? What do you think the writer meant when he used the description. 4. What is the danger of a single story according to the lecture? Provide some examples from the lecture to support you answer. 5. What is the main idea of this lecture? What was the significance of using the Ebo word Ngcali (meaning greater than) to help explain the main idea? Discuss 6. What are some single stories Egyptians might have about some foreigners? What about single stories foreigners have about Egyptians?
Activity • In the lecture, the speaker mention three different people she spoke with: • Her roommate • Her professor • A University student • Chose one situation. With a partner, imagine how you think the conversation was like between the speaker and that person. Write a script.
Changing a Stereotype You learn more and, slowly over time, adjust your perception. You experience an event and learn that a stereotype is absolutely not true. You create a subtype of a stereotype in your mind.
So… What Is Your Story?
AND…. How have people misjudged you?