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Grade 8-9, 10-12, Adult
Subject Cross-Curricular
Resource type Lesson plan/Unit plan
Duration 60 minutes

About This Resource

This lesson will use short stories and poetry to explore how gender roles and identity can be shaped by culture and change over time. Students will consider how gender identity and expression is influenced by societal expectations. They will also explain and support personal responses to a text. Students will respond to ideas on gender presented in song lyric format. Students will analyze content for explicit and implicit meaning.

*updates coming 2024/2025

Gender in Short Stories and Poetry