Glastonbury Foreign Language Program
Curricular Unit: What defines your self-identity? (Spanish)
Lesson Title: ¿Qué es un estereotipo?
Grade: 11
Subject/Topic Area(s): Self-identity, stereotypes
Key Words: estereotipos, costumbres, imágenes
Time Frame: 2 days
Designed by: L. Rosa

Standards:

Major Standards -- 3.1, 4.1
Supporting Standards -- 1.3.1, 1.3.2

Materials:

Pasajes (literatura, actividades)

Brief Summary of Lesson:

Students will identify positive and negative stereotypes and the origin of said stereotypes. Then they will postulate the effect of those stereotypes on the members of the different ethnic groups.

Activities:

Students will identify positive and negative stereotypes (first of all kinds, then specifically of ethnicity) and the origin of said stereotypes. (Pasajes : actividades p.11-13)
Students will become familiar with the appropriate vocabulary for the unit (Pasajes: literature p. 9-10)

Identify Desired Results

What do they already know that will help them learn new information? Where and when did they learn it?

Preconceived notions about certain ethnic groups.

Students will understand...

•  Stereotypes can vary from different perspectives.
•  The differences between immigrant groups.

Student will know...

Stereotypes are generalizations about certain groups that do not reflect reality.

Student will be able to...

Explain the effect of stereotypes in our society.

New vocabulary, structures acquired:

estereotipos, costumbres, imágenes.

Determining acceptable evidence

Performance Tasks: Speaking – class discussions

Other evidence: Writing- stereotypes from different perspectives

Examples of Student Work: