Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Read novel Mr. Bridge or Mrs. Bridge. Keep double entry journal of "roles."

Objective: Determine society's role in creating or perpetuating gender stereotypes. Practice close reading skills. Write about the effects of living one's life as a stereotype.

Activity: Students read either Mr. Bridge or Mrs. Bridge. Keep a double-entry journal (two entries per 30-40 pages) with a short passage from the novel on left and on the right side of the journal, a personal reaction to or memory evoked by the passage from novel. Student skit of one episode.

Assessment: Double entry journal reflects personal emotions, memories. Reflects understanding of limits imposed by stereotyping. Participation in skit/originality.