In ‘Other’ Words: Writing Gently Humorous Essays About Stereotypes
By Eric Hill • Jan 7th, 2010 • Category: Advice, Essays, On WritingIn ‘Other’ Words: Writing Gently Humorous Essays About Stereotypes
Illustration by Brian Rea
Warm-up | This lesson’s warm-up asks students to generate stereotypes they have about a specific “other.” Given the content of today’s featured Times piece, and depending on your curriculum, students might generate stereotypes about one of the following:
- Europeans in general
- The citizens of a specific country where a literary work or historical time period they are studying is set
- A group of figurative “foreigners” – such as people in a “rival” town or state, fans of a rival professional or school team, or something along those lines, as long as they are appropriately “foreign” to your students
Read the rest of this essay at The New York Times.
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