Gender Identity

Option 1:

On this wiki, you will write a response to our gender identity topic. In this written response you will discuss:

• Walter's ideas of manhood.
• A critique of his ideas. In what ways does he get it right? In what ways does he get it wrong?
• How does his notion of what a man needs to do/be differ from that of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird?
• Which ideas still pervade our thinking today? What evidence exists in our culture to support this?
• How do these ideas affect boys today? What pressures do they face?
• How do these ideas affect you?

Your written response will include specific examples from the books and links to media and websites that support each of your ideas. These can be pictures, essays, articles, websites, etc. They should be linked within the body of the response, where appropriate, rather than in a list at the end/beginning. If you want to embed a video, please remember that we can't watch youtube from school. However, if you find a video (while at home) on youtube or a similar site, you can go to zamzar.com and follow the instructions to convert the youtube video into a .mov file, which zamar will email to you. Then you can embed from your desktop.

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