First Lesson of Term 3 - Stereotypes

Today in class, we discussed our new unit of work which is gender representation in mass media, and we talked about stereotypes and judgement.

We started off the lesson by talking about how different stereotypes can be either positive or negative, however, most positive judgements/assumptions can be turned negative. We also talked about different stereotypes for our country and our school, then came up with a list of assumptions that have been made about us individually. Here is a list of couple of things that have been assumed about me:

- I am rude/angry and that I dislike them because of my RBF and facial expression

- I went to a makeup course over the holidays and it was assumed that I was bad at makeup and didn't know what I was doing because I was a lot younger than the rest of the group

- I am rude, stuck up, rich, etc. because I go to St Hilda's

Then, we split up into groups and thought about the stereotype of women and girls. Here is the mind map that our group created: