Discriminatory Descriptive Adjectives
Objective
Students will learn what stereotyping is and how it affects one person’s behavior towards another.
Equipment Needed
Blackboard
Chalk
Worksheets of Descriptive Adjectives
Presenting the Lesson
Students are informed that they will be given a worksheet containing a list of descriptive adjectives. Without signing their name to the paper, they will place next to each of the words the name of any one of the following groups that they feel is described by the word: Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Whites, Chinese.
When the entire class has completed the sheets they will be collected and a master list will be compiled on the chalkboard,showing each of the words and what group or groups the students felt the word represented.
A discussion on stereotyping and what stereotyping does to an individual or group should follow.
Discriminatory Descriptive Adjectives
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Aggressive
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Jovial
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Alert
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Large noses
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Argumentative
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Loud
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Artistic
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Materialistic
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Athletic
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Naive
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Bitter
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Oppressed
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Brave
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Poor
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Casual
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Practical
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Cowardly
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Quarrelsome
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Cruel
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Quiet
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Dark Complexion
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Reserved
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Deceitful
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Rich
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Dull
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Sensitive
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Evasive
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Small
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Frivolous
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Sportsmanlike
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Gregarious
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Strange
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Hard-working
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Talkative
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Humorous
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Tradition-loving
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Ignorant
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Treacherous
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Imaginative
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Uninformed
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Impulsive
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Very religious
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Insecure
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Warlike
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Intelligent
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Yellow-skinned
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