Thursday Video and Questions for Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLj3OIQHuEVideo Link
Questions:
“How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” Use the following questions to guide your note-taking (in your composition notebook) as you view the video:
1. How does Claude Steele define stereotype threat? What does he say is the threat that stereotypes pose, and how does that threat affect the way people function?
2. Whom does he say stereotype threat affects?
3. Summarize the ways in which Jonathan Lykes says stereotypes have affected him.
4. Why does Sonya Sohn say she lost a lot of confidence when she was the only black girl in a class of white students? What role did stereotypes play?
5. Summarize the experiment Steele describes. What stereotype about women was at the heart of his experiment? What effect did the stereotype have? How was he able to eliminate the effects of stereotype threat in this situation?
6. According to Steele, how does stereotype threat help explain the impact of history on the present?
7. Based on what you have learned from this video, explain in your own words how stereotypes may impact how one thinks about his or her own identity
Friday video and discussion questions:
www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting Video Link
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLj3OIQHuEVideo Link
Questions:
“How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” Use the following questions to guide your note-taking (in your composition notebook) as you view the video:
1. How does Claude Steele define stereotype threat? What does he say is the threat that stereotypes pose, and how does that threat affect the way people function?
2. Whom does he say stereotype threat affects?
3. Summarize the ways in which Jonathan Lykes says stereotypes have affected him.
4. Why does Sonya Sohn say she lost a lot of confidence when she was the only black girl in a class of white students? What role did stereotypes play?
5. Summarize the experiment Steele describes. What stereotype about women was at the heart of his experiment? What effect did the stereotype have? How was he able to eliminate the effects of stereotype threat in this situation?
6. According to Steele, how does stereotype threat help explain the impact of history on the present?
7. Based on what you have learned from this video, explain in your own words how stereotypes may impact how one thinks about his or her own identity
Friday video and discussion questions:
www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting Video Link
Chapter 12
- Explain what Scout finds unusual about Calpurnia’s manner of speaking at the black church?
- Why does the congregation sing the hymns by “lining”?
- What explanation does Cal give for speaking differently at church?
- Quote:
- Who is sitting on the Finch’s front porch?
Chapter 13
- How does Atticus explain Aunt Alexandra’s arrival?
- What does Aunt Alexandra request that Atticus try to convey to the children?
- Explain why Scout cries.
- What does Atticus tell the children to do concerning the conversation about family pride?