Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Create your own advertisement depicting no stereotypes. View Steel Magnolias.

Objective: To gain tolerance and awareness of the origins of stereotyping. To reflect on origin of students' own ideas of the roles of males and females.

Activity: Handout of "Sex Stereotyping Begins at Birth" for students to read quietly. View film clips dealing with fairness in school or read selections from Failing at Fairness. View CNN's Battle of the Sexes. Discuss the origins of stereotypes and what perpetuates these attitudes. Discuss all the issues raised in the handouts and film clips. Ask "How can we benefit from simply being aware of stereotypes?"

Assessment: Quiz over handout. Class discussion and individual participation.