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Objective: To acquaint students with the concept that there are male gender-role stereotypes and to examine how these traditional behaviors and expectations affect males
Grade Level: Grades 7 through 12
Time: 45 minutes
Materials: Copies of Free-to-Choose handout, poster or overhead transparency equipment, chalkboard and chalk
Procedure: Distribute the Free-to-Choose handout (below) and point out to students that it lists 20 activities. Instruct students to read each activity and to indicate their own feelings about males being involved in these activities by circling the response closest to their own position.
When the group is finished, ask for a show of hands.
Instructions: Circle the response closest to your own feelings about whether it is appropriate for a male to do each of the following actions:
1. Cook breakfast.
2. Knit a sweater or scarf.
3. Sew on a button.
4. Wash dishes.
5. Do housework.
6. Wear a dress in a play.
8. Touch and show affection to friends.
9. Kiss his father.
11. Back out of a fight.
12. Carry a purse.
13. Complain about being hurt or sick.
14. Wrap a birthday present for his grandmother.
15. Tell someone he was nervous and afraid about a test, a game,
or a date.
16. Ask a female to pay her own way on a date.
17. Date a female who is the smartest person in the class.
18. Announce openly to a group that he doesn't want to be a leader
and will willingly let someone else be in charge.
19. Try out for cheerleader.
20. Take dancing lessons.
The above excerpt was from Raising the Grade, a curriculum about Title IX. It is available from WEEA in the Spring of 1998. Call 800-793-5076 to order.
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