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LESSON 7: Synthesizing the information gathered from U.S. and target culture perspectives and re-examining the notion of gender roles. The teacher produces two previously prepared overheads of the phrases describing how students believe Germans view males and females and superimposes them over one another. Then, the teacher switches the male and female symbols on the large cutouts and asks the students to discuss in groups their reactions to this switch. Groups share their impressions and ideas in the large group.
Students are asked to record their impressions, feelings, and ideas on the sheet provided, addressing such issues as whether this is possible or not and why? What does it mean to be male, female, human? Here the intention is for the teacher to reinforce notions of "life." Why do men and women have to be seen as different? Is there such a thing as "a human being" or do we always have to think in terms of gender?
At this point, groups are given a copy of the attached "Utopia Graph" (adapted from Shor, 1980, p. 170) and are asked to fill in the top portion with a focus on the U.S. context. (Ideally, 5 groups should be formed and these same groups should be assigned the task described in Lesson 8.) The top part gets at description; here students name the concept to be described (gender roles), define gender roles in the U.S. based on the information gathered, and provide "life examples." The partially completed graphs are collected by the teacher and will be added to later.
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