September 7 and 10

1. QYQ: Strong Thinkers, Rule 1

2. Read interactively, ‘’Male Brain vs. Female’’ (handout).

3. Summarize the article in two sentences.

4. Speculate about alternate causes and future evolution.

5. Quick Like a Bunny! Grade vocabulary.

1. Interactive Reading (Turn in the article.)

2. LMG Summarizing, Speculating (poster)

3. Sign up for PSAT! $22.00 in bookstore

4. Study Vocab! Quiz Monday (defs, synonyms, antonyms)

TOPIC: Male vs Female ThinkingLEVEL: Speculating

Assessment / Assignment

Quiz Yourself Quiz

1. List four things strong thinkers do.

2. List Thinkstrong Rule 1.

3. Speculate:

• How do males think differently from females?

• How do females think differently from males?

Male vs. Female Brainby Satoshi Kanazawa

Psychology Today

1. Read interactively .2. Summarize the article in two sentences.

3. Speculate about alternate causes and future evolution.

Reading Interactively Looks Like This

How to Read Interactively

1. Number the paragraphs.

2. In pencil or pen, circle key terms and unfamiliar words. Write informal definitions (or explanations) in the margins.

3. Highlight the author’s major claims and supporting details.

4. In the margins . . .

o On the left side, write a summary sentence for each paragraph.

o On the right side, write questions for 3 paragraphs.

o Write two of your own claims + reasons (things you have noticed and think are true about male/female brains) in the space at the end of the article.

Paragraph 1

Research in evolutionary psychology and related fields has uncovered the distinct ways that men’s minds and women’s minds operate. Few have made greater contribution to the discovery of the “male brain” and the “female brain” than Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge, Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University, and my esteemed LSE colleague Christopher Badcock. So what is the male brain? What is the female brain?

Development of the brain across centuries / millennia

Paragraph 1

Research in evolutionary psychology and related fields has uncovered the distinct ways that men’s minds and women’s minds operate. Few have made greater contribution to the discovery of the “male brain” and the “female brain” than Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge, Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University, and my esteemed LSE colleague Christopher Badcock. So what is the male brain? What is the female brain?

Development of the brain across centuries / millennia

Research question, to be answered by article.

Paragraph 2

The male brain is characterized by systemizing tendencies and mechanistic thinking. “Systemizing” is the drive to analyze, explore, and construct a system. The systemizer intuitively figures out how things work, or extracts the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system. The purpose of this is to understand and predict the system, or to invent a new one.

Habit of thinking of how things can be built—parts into a whole. Think of individual

parts working together.

Paragraph 2

The male brain is characterized by systemizing tendencies and mechanistic thinking. “Systemizing” is the drive to analyze, explore, and construct a system. The systemizer intuitively figures out how things work, or extracts the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system. The purpose of this is to understand and predict the system, or to invent a new one.

Habit of thinking of how things can be built—parts into a whole. Think of individual

parts working together.