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Gender Identity

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Last Modified April 8, 2021
Description
Reading

Gender and Identity

Read the personal reflections of a mother whose young son has challenged her assumptions and expectations about gender identity.

Sample identity chart.
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Lesson

Who Am I?

By asking the question "Who am I?" students explore the role that identity plays in forming their values, ideas, and actions.

A female student engages in discussion.
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Lesson

What Shapes Your Identity?

Through a poem-writing activity, students broaden and deepen their understanding of identity.

Student writing notes.
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Lesson

What Shapes Your Identity?

Through a poem-writing activity, students broaden and deepen their understanding of identity.

Student writing notes.
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Lesson

Understanding Identity

Students consider the question "Who am I?" and identify social and cultural factors that shape identity by reading a short story and creating personal identity charts.

An illustration from Fred Tashlin's The Bear That Wasn't.
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Teaching Strategy

Identity Charts

Use identity charts to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

An example of an identity chart for a high school student living in the Boston suburbs.