Stereotypes EE


 * Student will be able to: **
 * 1) **define stereotype**
 * 2) **describe stereotypes in the time of Jesus**
 * 3) **compare and contrast negative and positive and neutral stereotypes.**

A. What do you understand by the term "stereotype"? What is the definition?
 * Assignment ** : - Copy the info below. Paste it on a wiki page that you create called ** Stereotype //initials//. **

__**Answers:**__
 * 1) I understand that it is a thing that many people have about other people. It means to think about how people might be doing things or ways of doing them.

B. View a story about stereotypes: The Good Samaritan Then discuss
 * 1) Are stereotypes new?
 * 2) How do you think stereotypes come about?
 * 3) Do we only create stereotypes of people we fear or distrust?
 * 4) Do stereotypes ever have any truth in them?


 * __Answers:__**
 * No, they have been around forever because in __The Good Samaritan__, the priest and Levite had stereotypes of the man that had gotten beaten up.
 * 1) I think they come about by people judging to quickly about people and then tell other people to ignore that one being.
 * No, sometimes people can create stereotypes because maybe that person is mentally ill or people we just do not like.
 * 1) Sometimes stereotypes will have truth in them if people were to admit what they were doing.

C. View the info on the links below. Detail both positive and negative representations.
 * Choctaw Nation helped Ireland during 1847 famine
 * Time to do away with the Redskins labels
 * School mascots blamed for escalation of stereotypes
 * Indian Mascot PSA
 * How Squanto became a Thanksgiving Symbol

__**Answers:**__
 * 1) The Choctaw story has both a positive and negative representation. The positive of it is that the Choctaw Nation were willing to help out the Irish even though the Irish weren't apart of their tribe(s). The negative is that the Choctaw were sent away to Oklahoma on the trail called the Trail of Tears so that the Americaans could make room for all of the new settlers.
 * 2) The Redskins story was had a lot of negatives but there wasn't too many positives. The negatives is the story had was that some American Indian activists were saying that the NFL team, the Redskins, had to change their name because it was violating the Lanham Act, created in 1946. These activists even went to court over the NFL team's name in which they thought was offensive.
 * 3) The school mascots blamed for stereotypes story also has a lot of negatives. It talks about Native Americans saying that there shouldn't be any Native American mascots at all for any high school, college, or NFL football. They say that children are being brought into a world were it is cowboys and Indians.
 * 4) The Indian Mascot PSA video has negatives as well. They say that having Native Americans as mascots are harmful to children. They say that this is racism and we shouldn't be teaching our children this.
 * 5) Squanto's story was about how Squanto became a Thanksgiving symbol. He had helped the Pilgrims translate things to Chief Massasiot. Squanto had also acted as a guide for the Pilgrims. Knowing how to read and write, Squanto had helped create peace between the Native Americans and Pilgrims.

D. If we were to develop a mascot for Incarnation Catholic School, what would the mascot be? How would he/she be dressed? How would it present ICS?

It would probably be a leprechaun. He/she would be dressed in green clothing including shoes and a hat. It would represent ICS since we are the Fighting Irish

E. What is the mascot of the high school you will attend next year? Explain how does it represents the school?

The Academy of the Holy Names mascot is a jaguar. It represents the school by the school athletics team not ever giving up and working as a team.