DATE
April 6, 2015
AGENDA
•New seating chart
(4th period)
•Senior Project
Reminders
•“When Did Girls
Start Wearing
Pink?”
•Modes of
Communication
Do Now
Take one of each
handout from the front
desk and wait for my
instructions.
REMINDERS
“GRADUATION IS ONLY A
CONCEPT. IN REAL LIFE EVERY
DAY YOU GRADUATE.
GRADUATION IS A PROCESS
THAT GOES ON UNTIL THE
LAST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. IF
YOU CAN GRASP THAT, YOU’LL
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.”
ARIE PENCOVICI
HOMEWORK
Edit and resume. Due tonight in
turnitin.com by 11:59pm
LAST CLASS:
Judith Butler
“Phylosophe”
NEXT CLASS:
LEARNING FOCUS FOR TODAY
Explore how gender norms impact
the ways in which men and women
communication
Brooks “Honor
Code”
Exploring
gender norms
and
expectations in
schooling
On the back, write your
reactions to the piece.
What stood out to you?
What, if anything,
shocked you? Did
anything change your
perspective?
The author suggests that
gendered clothing shifts
with each changing
generation and proves
ample examples of that
change. What changes
do you see with your
generation? Provide
On the board, list what you consider to
be effective means of communication and
ineffective means of communication.
Effective Means of Ineffective Means
Communication
of Communication
If you had to characterize
your communication style by
type, which of the following
would you choose and why?
o
o
o
o
Passive
Assertive
Aggressive
Passive Aggressive
At the beginning of the unit, several of
you chose to respond to the following
quickwrite:
One or two generations ago, men and women
seemed to have firmer codes for how to
behave: men could be loud and assertive,
while women were expected to dress
modestly and to use a feminine voice. Do
you think these traditional “rules” for male
and female behavior still hold true today?
What can you point to as support for your
position?
Discuss in relationship to methods of
communication.
Discuss with a partner your ideas of why Tannen devotes the
majority of her article to analyzing women’s speech. Does this
rhetorical choice strengthen or undermine the persuasiveness
of her argument?
Have your ideas about language use and gender shifted in any
way as result of reading Tannen’s text? Why or why not?