This document outlines a lesson plan that aims to sensitize students about stereotypes of Native Americans portrayed in media such as commercials, movies, and pictures. The lesson involves students defining stereotypes, discussing examples of Native American stereotypes, watching a clip from the movie "Dances with Wolves," and creating a comic or captioned pictures about stereotypes. The goal is for students to understand how minorities are portrayed versus reality and consider stereotypes' impact on national unity.

1. Main topic: Stereotypes
Subtopic: Νative Americans’
portrayal in commercials, movies,
pictures
Group 3
Elpida Adalopoulou
Bahram Taqawi
Gansile Maomou
Helene Nekarmbaye
Loreta Cizinauskiene

2. Native Americans’ portrayal in
commercials, movies, pictures
Level :
Intermediate, Upper Intermediate.
Time :
45-60 minutes
Objectives :
Sensitize students on stereotypes
A chance to show their artistic talent

3. Resources
 Questionnaire
 Commercial
 Pictures
 Video clip from a movie

4. Background
The teacher relates the topic to the students’
background experience
Minorities and the way they are portrayed on
TV.
Appearance versus Reality

5. Preparation
 Definition of the term “stereotype” by
brainstorming
 Questionnaire for warm-up
 Five adjectives to describe Native American
stereotype

6. Procedures
 Pictures portraying Native Americans.
Discussion.

7. Procedures
 Comics, cartoons portraying Native
Americans. Discussion.

8. Procedures
 Presentation of a short commercial
“The Crying Indian” “Keep America
Beautiful”
 Students discuss relevant questions
 Students watch part of the movie
“Dances with the wolves”

9. Assignments/Assessment
 Students make a comic, with or without
caption. Example on the board.

10. Assignments/Assessment
 Exit slip : Three full sentences about
stereotypes and national unity.
 Connections : Comparison of Native American
stereotypes with others in American
or National History.
 Lingering questions posed by students
 Interdisciplinary approach: on-line visit of
exhibits of Washington National Museum of the
American Indian.
 Recapitulating: the gist of the class through pictures
with a caption.

11. We are black, yet if we cut ourselves, the blood will be
red and so with the whites it is the same, though their
skin be white. I am of another nation, when I speak, you
do not understand me. When you speak, I do not
understand you. Spokan Garry (1811-1892).

12. Useful websites
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70HG7tHrNM
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• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dances+
with+the+wolves+trailer&oq=dances+with+the+wolves
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• www.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_popular_cu
lture
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• www.voices.yahoo.com/grace-under-firestereotypesresistance-native-224700.html?cat=38
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q

13. Bibliography
• English Teaching Forum, Volume 50, Number 3,
2012
• Photographs by Edward Curtis. Native American
Wisdom. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1994.
• Zin Howard. A People’s History of the United
States. New York:HarperPerrenial Modern
Classics, 1999.
• Zin Howard & Anthony Arnove. Voices of a
people’s history of the United States. New York:
Seven Stories Press, 2004.

14. Thank you for your time.
Safe travels.