Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Know: Men are from Mar's, Women are From Venus

Understand: Gender Differences in Thinking

Be able to do: Socratic Seminar
                      Distinguish Between Myth and Fact

Homework: Prepare a presentation on one of the questions for the final test for the unit

Step 1: Schema Activator: Evaluate the Statement: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Step 2: Read pages 1-4 from the Preview of Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

Step 3: Make connections between your life and the text

Step 4: Discuss in two Socratic Circles your thoughts on the Introduction to the book.

Step 5: Respond on this blog:

Evaluate the Statement: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Essay Analysis

Do you agree with the women's suffrage essay that the women's movement was able to "complete several of its major goals."?

Explain.

Classwork for Thursday December 10, 2009

Know: Data regarding gender gaps

Understand: Gender Gaps in the Education, Science, and Professions

Be able to do: Prepare a presentation about professional gender gaps.

Step 1: Visit the sites at Sociology.

Step 2: Research gender inequality in education, in the work place, or in politics. Then prepare a multimedia presentation using PowerPoint. The presentation should include thematic charts and graphs to illustrate the disparity between the genders, if such a gap exists. Give reasons in your presentation as to why the gap may exist and what can be done to close or narrow the gap.

Step 3: Be prepared to share your findings on Friday.

Extension Activity

Know: Poverty in a Haitian Village
Understand: The relationships between poverty, gender roles, and family
Be able to do: Examine a poverty simulation and reflect on the game

Step 1: Play the game Ayiti: the cost of life

Step 2: Discuss with a neighbor the following questions:

• What was the correlation between choices made, your respective outcomes, and the constraints faced within the game?
•  How the did your own lives and situations compare and contrast with those of the family members in the game?
• Did you have any gender bias when you assigned different activities to the family members?

Step 3: Play the game again with a partner and try to be fair between male and female family members.

Answer the following questions on the blog.


1. What was it like playing the game?
2. What was the game about and how would you describe it to a friend?
3. Which primary objective did you select, and why? (Get several answers.)
4. What types of decisions did you have to make about the family members while
playing the game and trying to achieve your objective?
5. What strategies did you use? For example, did you combine work and school, or
did you send everyone to work? Which worked? Which did not?
6. Why would parents choose to devote so much effort to sending their children
to school?
7. How many of you were able to keep the children in school?
8. What obstacles did you face in trying to keep them in school?
9. How do the situations and options in the game compare with those in your own
community?
10. Why might access to education be a challenge in another country?
11. What factors would make it easier for the children in the game to gain access to
education? What conditions could be changed and how?

 12. How did gender play into your decisions about the family?

The Battle Over Abortion

Know: The laws about abortion
Understand: Why the debate rages on in the U.S.
Be able to do: Compare and Contrast the Abortion Rules Across Two States
Debate whether the rules should be changed in the U.S. for abortion


Step 1: Schema Map of the U.S. legal rules for abortion.


Step 2: Discuss your views on abortion.


Step 3: Compare and Contrast Two States' Abortion Rules Using this Map

Step 4: Analyze the reasons for regional differences in use of the abortion

Step 5: View Frontline: Last Abortion

Step 6: Make your own rules for abortion on Handout 4

Women and Work

Know: The causes of the gender gap in pay

Understand: Social Structures and gender roles

Be able to do: Analyze four graphs
                      Design a political cartoon about women and work.


Step 1: Quiz!

What did the author mean this quote?

"Gender is a category we construct to make sense of our worldand into which we are socialized" (page 96)

Step 2: Schema: Political Cartoon

Step 3: View the four graphs on Pages 292 -295 in Sociology.

Determine the causes of the negative outcomes for women using the cause and effect handout.

Step 3: Discuss why women earn less than men, and why it might be harder for women to find work.

Step 4: View a segment of Women at Work from uChannel.

Step 5: Create a political cartoon the issues of women and the workplace.

You can take an idea from:

Homework Reading: ":Lecture Notes"
Graphs from Sociology
The video clip from uChannel: Women and Work

Lesson Closure: Perspectives on Gender Stratification

Which perspective best explains the phenomena of men holding doors for women? Explain.

Use ideas from the textbook review to help formulate your response.