1,000 4.2

1,000 4.2

DO NOW: Discuss: can you come up with the titles of three movies that feature strong female protagonists? More than one strong female character?

Objectives:

• consider messages about gender created by the film industry and how they influence human behavior
• synthesize primary and secondary sources in their research.

AGENDA

1. Do now
2. For a movie to pass The Bechdel Test, it must contain a scene in which two or more named female characters have a conversation (that is, back and forth dialogue) about anything besides men.

-Brainstorm famous movies- do they pass the Bechdel Test?

3. How Movies Teach Manhood TED Talk (12 min)

4.  Class Discussion (10)

5. 3-2-1 Group Discussion: Suns chapters 31-36 (5)

6. Activism project group work

Summarize: why is it important to consider the issue of women’s rights, in both our own country and in the developing world?

HW: Read Chapters 37-40  + 3-2-1 Discussion Journals;