Module 2 Challenges: Courage and Leadership - An excerpt from She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Young Women About Life, Dreams and Success
After Reading and Listening
Making Connections with Background Information
In discussion groups, ask students to compare their new findings to their previous knowledge about what it takes to be a fighter pilot (knowledge they may have gained from movies, television, stories). What are the similarities and the differences?
Revisit the Big Questions
After reading or listening to the interview, reconsider the BIG questions with the students: What qualities do leaders possess? What does it mean to give your best? What role does persistence play in achieving your best? Ask them to decide if they think Kim Reid qualifies as a leader. According to what Kim Reid tells Erica Ehm, what might Kim say about what it means to give your best? What is Reid's opinion of persistence? Invite students to formulate a list of tips (advice) Kim Reid would give grade ten students.
Extending option: Invite students to create four interview questions that they would like to ask Kim Reid. When they create their questions, tell students to identify the purpose of each question and to create questions that are respectful of Reid.
In the interview, Reid identifies five character traits that a good fighter pilot should possess. Have students locate and record those five traits. How might those five traits relate to leadership? giving your best? being persistent?
Tone
Discuss the conversational tone of the interview. See LANGUAGE STUDY.
TASK: MENTOR/ROLE MODEL RESPONSE
In the interview, Ehm asks Reid if she has any role models or mentors. Reid cites the fictional character Waldo Pepper as her role model and Olivia Barr as her mentor. What is a role model? What is a mentor? Ask students to create a definition for each of these terms. Ask students to identify who their role models are and who they would like or who they have as a mentor. With the students, you could generate a list of characteristics a role model or mentor should possess. Students may respond to the interview by choosing one of the following options:
- Design a poster or write a poem that pays tribute to your role model or mentor.
- Create a "Help Wanted" classified for a role model or mentor.
- Create a "How To" pamphlet for role models or mentors.
You may distribute the handout ELA A 10 "She Should Talk" Responding Activity (RTF/PDF/Word).
November 12, 2005
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