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.

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