Women and Labour | Lesson 8 Assessment Focus Task Component Instruction Notes for Teachers* Look Fors Ask students to consider Ask students to reflect on the and reflect on the following following: questions with a partner: • When did the rights • “How do gender roles and expectations for shape both our female citizens change expectations and in Canada? What were society’s expectations the different societal of ourselves?” conditions that prompted change? Students may complete this portion of the • How has it been for activity using a Think women In other Pair Share strategy. countries? Once students have had an • What kind of evidence do opportunity to think of at you see for this? least one or two future expectations, they may pair During In groups of three to five, Assessment as ‘Mantle of the Expert’ is a up with a seat partner Learning drama methodology created students will explore the (Working on it) 5 and share their thoughts. working challenges and by Dorothy Heathcote. minutes Students will work conditions of women during Students dramatically collaboratively to use drama the era under explore a problem under conventions of mime, study, using selected websites investigation through characterization and tableau. and/ inquiry and imagined The ‘Living Tableau’ will or texts. experience. become animated in the Students will work as a presence of an audience as team to select aspects to characters discuss and live dramatize. through the issues which face They will construct a tableau them. based on the information The tableau can also they have explored, as well as answer questions from their own inferences on what the audience. life in general, and working life in specific, might have been like. After choosing characters, aspects of experience, attitudes and an overall | Intermediate ETFO Resource | setting, students will have Learning from Labour some time to interact to bring their tableau to life. 107
Women and Labour | Lesson 8 Task Component Instruction Assessment Focus Look Fors Notes for Teachers* Ask students to consider and reflect on the following questions with a partner: • “How do gender roles shape both our expectations and society’s expectations of ourselves?” Students may complete this portion of the activity using a Think Pair Share strategy. Once students have had an opportunity to think of at least one or two future expectations, they may pair up with a seat partner and share their thoughts. Ask students to reflect on the following: • When did the rights and expectations for female citizens change in Canada? What were the different societal conditions that prompted change? • How has it been for women In other countries? • What kind of evidence do you see for this? During (Working on it) 5 minutes In groups of three to five, students will explore the working challenges and conditions of women during the era under study, using selected websites and/ or texts. Students will work as a team to select aspects to dramatize. They will construct a tableau based on the information they have explored, as well as their own inferences on what life in general, and working life in specific, might have been like. After choosing characters, aspects of experience, attitudes and an overall setting, students will have some time to interact to bring their tableau to life. Assessment as Learning Students will work collaboratively to use drama conventions of mime, characterization and tableau. The ‘Living Tableau’ will become animated in the presence of an audience as characters discuss and live through the issues which face them. The tableau can also answer questions from the audience. ‘Mantle of the Expert’ is a drama methodology created by Dorothy Heathcote. Students dramatically explore a problem under investigation through inquiry and imagined experience. | Intermediate ETFO Resource | Learning from Labour 107