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Where Are the Women?
Kind of Activity:
Classwide Discussion
Objective:
Students will analyze the lack of female characters within the novel.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.8, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3
Structure:
In the Character Analysis activity from the previous day, students may have noticed that of all the characters except Trillian are male. Discuss this as a class. Why do students think all the characters are male? This seems especially strange in a science fiction world where there are characters with two heads and three arms, hyperintelligent mice, and a starship that can cross the galaxy in nothingths of a second....
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