RaC project ICT S11

RaC – A Read to Write Workshop

Theme:_Outstanding Women in Different Fields

Level: __Higher Senior___

Duration:A 2-hour in-class

Teaching / Learning Materials

Printed materials:
“Asian action heroine
wins”—iNKY(newspaper)

Digital materials:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | National Women's

History Museum (womenshistory.org)

Biography: Toni Morrison (womenshistory.org)
Marie Curie - Movie, Children & Death

(biography.com)

Jane Goodall (nationalgeographic.org)
Tu Youyou - Women in Exploration

Outstanding Women
in Different Fields

Pre-reading [R2L strategies]

Have you seen this movie before?

10min

Open Ended

Do you know who she is?

What is she holding?

Pre-reading [R2L strategies]

Do you know who she is?

What is she holding?

Let’s watch a short video clip of Michelle giving
a winning speech at the Golden Globe Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mDOM3-LIx0k

​An actress Michelle Yeon.

​A golden Globe.

Pre-reading [R2L strategies]

Work with a partner. Can you
come up with some words to
describe her?

brave, cheerful, confident,
friendly, intelligent, talented …

Open Ended

Work with a partner.

Can you come up with some words to describe her?

Let’s read together!

Read the text and finish a Hamburger Organizer.

While-reading [R2L strategies]
50min

Hamburger Writing Organizer-individual work

( Teacher first guides ss about how to do the “achievement” part and lets
ss finish the remaining parts of the burger.)

Achievement:

Personality:

Significance:

Open Ended

Fill in the first three layers of the hamburger.

Stereotypes:

Open Ended

Fill in this layer.

Stereotypes:

Fighting stereotypes:

Open Ended

Fill in the last two layers

Achievement: Michelle won the Golden Globe Award
and was at the top of the Hollywood film industry.

Personality: She is tough, no-nonsense, determined,
funny, and admirable.

Significance: women and minority groups will not
be looked down upon anymore as weak and
invisible in the movie industry.

Stereotypes: Asian women have to contend with
historical pressure to make themselves small;
women are expected to be demure and diminutive.
Asian women can’t speak English.

Fighting stereotypes: Women should use their own
voices to speak out and challenge stereotypes.

Check the answers together!

Post-reading - Responding[R2L strategies]

Stereotypes on female

Discussion - Thinking critically

In the passage read before, we can see that in movie industry, women are still in a weaker position than men.

1h

Poll

To what extent, do you think that women face stererotypes in daily life?

• 😀No at all

• 🤔I am not sure.

• 😐I feel a little.

• 😔Yes, I have seen that.

• 😨Yes, I experienced it personally.

Open Ended

In other fields, can you
think about more stereotypes females face?

Against stereotype

■Public awareness - Break the mindset that women are tend to be weaker
ones.

■Company - Give employment and promotion opportunities to female
employees regardless of whether they are get married or not.

■Government - Public institutions should set an example to private
companies, that is , giving the equal opportunities to male and female
for working as civil servants.

Think about more measures to break the stereotypes on women
after class!

Post-reading - Exploring[R2L strategies]

What other female icons do you know?

How did they fight against stereotypes?

●

Read the given materials and do some research on the
above five women and choose one of them to write a short
biography with the hamburger organiser ON YOUR OWN.

Outstanding

women

Occupation

Personality

Achievement

How they
overcame
stereotypes

Group Work

●

Each group should choose one outstanding woman

and create an E-book with bookcreator.

●

In your E-book, you should introduce her occupation,

personality, her achievements and how she fights

against stereotypes with pictures and videos(if any).

Post-reading - Applying[R2L strategies]

Your group work-E book

Group

Topic

E-book Link

Fill in your information in the Google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LAtdRbqNyD6CoX_
RwvqBXA0l4qH82VugB1Srdydhc60/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you!