Year 10 Girls Forum

Session 1

Organisation
Ipads
Headphones
Groups will be doing each different person at different times to enable the iPads to be rotated for the “Emma Watson” section
Interactive white board
Session
Positive role models and positive self-esteem:
What we can learn from positive role models and apply to our lives
(45 minutes)
  • Emma Watson
  • Every Day girl – Jay May

  • Emma Watson
STIMULUS –Watch speech on the iPads with head sets
  • Written speech?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • What do you admire about Emma Watson?
As an actor
As a women
As an ambassador
  • Why does she ask girls AND BOYS to get involved in a “feminist” campaign?
  • What does she say girls do and don’t do in order to gain the attention of boys and make sure they seem “girly?”
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  • How could you apply the following quote by Emma Watson to your own life?
“It is my responsibility to say something – In my moments of doubt I told myself, If not me, who – if not now, when?”
  • Every day girl: Jay May (Teenager poet)
STIMULUS – Watch her perform her poem about body image on YouTube
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • Are you brave enough to say what you are thinking and feeling? Why/ Why not? Who supports you and who stops you?
  • How does what she is saying she enjoys and how she feels about her body different from how society expects women to want and think?
  • What do you say to yourself about your body and how you feel about food? How does this affect your self-esteem?
  • Interpret the following things that she said. How could you apply these quotes to your own life?
  • “I will have to make my words matter and make my words speak who I am”
  • “She never let anyone close enough to see it, let alone let help her beat it back”

  • Bad role models vs good role models: How to tell the difference?