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A project created in july 2013, in Urbana - Champaign by Elpida and her international group.
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Main topic: StereotypesSubtopic: Νative Americans’ portrayal in commercials, movies, pictures
Group 3Elpida Adalopoulou
Bahram TaqawiGansile Maomou
Helene NekarmbayeLoreta Cizinauskiene
Native Americans’ portrayal in commercials, movies, pictures
Level :Intermediate, Upper Intermediate.
Time :45-60 minutes
Objectives :Sensitize students on stereotypesA chance to show their artistic talent
Resources
Questionnaire
Commercial
Pictures
Video clip from a movie
Background
The teacher relates the topic to the students’ background experience
Minorities and the way they are portrayed on TV.
Appearance versus Reality
Preparation
Definition of the term “stereotype” by brainstorming
Questionnaire for warm-up
Five adjectives to describe Native American stereotype
Procedures
Pictures portraying Native Americans. Discussion.
Procedures
Comics, cartoons portraying Native Americans. Discussion.
Procedures
Presentation of a short commercial “The Crying Indian” “Keep America Beautiful”
Students discuss relevant questions
Students watch part of the movie “Dances with the wolves”
Assignments/Assessment
Students make a comic, with or without caption. Example on the board.
Assignments/Assessment Exit slip : Three full sentences about stereotypes and national unity. Connections : Comparison of Native American stereotypes with others in American or National History. Lingering questions posed by students Interdisciplinary approach: on-line visit of exhibits of Washington National Museum of the American Indian. Recapitulating: the gist of the class through pictures with a caption.
We are black, yet if we cut ourselves, the blood will be red and so with the whites it is the same, though their skin be white. I am of another nation, when I speak, you do not understand me. When you speak, I do not understand you. Spokan Garry (1811-1892).
Useful websites
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70HG7tHrNM • • https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=d
ances+with+the+wolves+trailer&oq=dances+with+the+wolves
• • www.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_po
pular_culture• • www.voices.yahoo.com/grace-under-firestereotype
s-resistance-native-224700.html?cat=38• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q
Bibliography
• English Teaching Forum, Volume 50, Number 3, 2012
• Photographs by Edward Curtis. Native American Wisdom. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1994.
• Zin Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York:HarperPerrenial Modern Classics, 1999.
• Zin Howard & Anthony Arnove. Voices of a people’s history of the United States. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.
Thank you for your time.Safe travels.