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Lesson 6: “Why Stereotypes Should Be Avoided” Opinion Article
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 6: “Why Stereotypes Should Be Avoided” Opinion Article
Student Learning Objectives
1
Foundations
Students will identify roots and analyze how affixes change word meanings.
2
Content
Students will read an opinion article and a personal narrative about stereotypes, discuss the authors’ purpose, and relate the content to The Outsiders.
3
Language
Students will explain how authors use word choice and examples to shape purpose and perspective, using evaluation language, contrastive connectors, and evidence-based claims.
4
Foundations
Students will identify roots and analyze how affixes change word meanings.
Essential Question
How do relationships and communities shape a person’s sense of belonging and identity?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Examine how stereotypes form, how they are perpetuated, and how they prevent connection and contribute to discrimination.
Enduring Understanding:
People’s views of others can foster or prevent connection.
Future Lessons:
In Lessons 7 and 9, students will return to The Outsiders to further examine the effect of stereotypes and prejudices on the characters. In Lesson 8, students will read more informational texts about social identity and continue to build knowledge about the factors that impact connection and belonging.
Unit Performance Task:
The opinion article gives students language to think about how people include and exclude others. The personal narrative source provides a genre example that shows students how a narrative author develops a purpose using a specific voice and tone.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will engage in a Turn-and-Talk discussion reflecting on how characters in The Outsiders have both common and uncommon ground. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will be introduced to two new vocabulary words relevant to the nonfiction texts using morpheme instruction. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Identify Author’s Purpose (RI.7.6) Students will engage with “Why Stereotypes Should Be Avoided” by reading and annotating the text in pairs. Part B: Analyze the Effect of Stereotypes (RI.7.4, RI.7.6) Students will engage with “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space” by reading and annotating the text in groups. |
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Addressed in Lesson
- perspective:
- a way of thinking about or understanding something; the way you view a situation based on your own experiences and knowledge
- stereotype:
- an idea that people have about what everyone in a certain group is like, even though everyone in that group is different; may be unfair or untrue
Additional Vocabulary
- generalization:
- a broad statement or proposition
- intersectionality
- how different kinds of discrimination overlap and affect people at the same time
- discreet
- careful and quiet in what one does or says so as not to draw attention
- uninflammatory
- not likely to make people angry or emotional
- perceive
- to see or understand something in a particular way
- anecdote:
- a short personal story used to explain a point
Material List
- Unit 1, Lesson 6 Student Edition
- Character Chart from Lesson 5
- The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton
Routines
- Turn-and-Talk
- Morphology & Vocabulary
- Think-Pair-Share
- Quick Write
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
Japanese American National Museum
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