Stereotypes+JJ


 * 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? I understand by the term stereotype that its something that people say that aren't always real. For instance, Asians are smart. Not every single Asian in the world is smart. It only started because somebody knew a really smart person who was Asian. The definition of stereotype is, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
 * Assignment ** : - Copy the info below. Paste it on a wiki page that you create called ** Stereotype //initials//. **

B. View a story about stereotypes: The Good Samaritan Then discuss No, stereotypes have been around since the time Jesus was on earth.
 * 1) Are stereotypes new?

I think stereotypes come about when people are different from one another.
 * 1) How do you think stereotypes come about?

I think that we usually create stereotypes about we fear or distrust, but I also think that sometimes we might create a stereotype about someone who we don't fear and trust without knowing it.
 * 1) Do we only create stereotypes of people we fear or distrust?

Some stereotypes have truth in them, but not all.
 * 1) Do stereotypes ever have any truth in them?

C. View the info on the links below. Detail both positive and negative representations. The Native Americans are represented positively.
 * Choctaw Nation helped Ireland during 1847 famine

Squanto is represented negatively.
 * How Squanto became a Thanksgiving Symbol

The Redskins name is represented negatively.
 * Time to do away with the Redskins labels

The Native American mascots and names are represented in a negative way.
 * School mascots blamed for escalation of stereotypes

The Native American mascots and names are represented in a negative way.
 * Indian Mascot PSA

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?

If we're going to have a mascot for Incarnation Catholic School it would probably be an Irish man. He would have orange hair and an orange beard. He would dress in a white shirt with a shamrock in the center and green khakis. The mascot would present ICS by cheering, "Go Irish," during games.

E. What is the mascot of the high school you will attend next year? Explain how does it represents the school? The mascot of the high school I'm hoping to attend next year is the jaguar. I think it represents the school well because the people who go to that school compete fiercely and a jaguar is fierce.