Just because a person has a different style than you, how might you still be able to relate to them?

Why is style so important to people?  How does it affect us in every day living?

How often do you judge someone based on their style?  Do you even realize it when you do?

What do you enjoy about the different styles that you have? Why? 

Why does one particular style stand out to you more than another?

How does appreciating other people's style differences contribute to breaking down barriers?

What kinds of barriers are you breaking down by appreciating other people's styles?

For students to understand that it is important to listen to different points of view even though they don't have to agree with them

Have them obtain more of a personal, independent feeling of why they like the styles they do and how this may affect them

Lecture (15 minutes)  Teacher defines style and gives example of how they can  relate their style to the way the world might perceive their personal style.  also, everyone has a different style...

Continue talking about the different types of medians you could use in designing a house and where they would be most appropriately used

Write the medians on a dry erase board and have students copy in their notes (20 minutes)

Then, have the class take their "apartments" that they designed the Friday before and give them the same apartment floor plan paper.  Ask them to come up with their own way of doing things in the apartment

Design and color apartments, using furniture stencils

Allow them to select different medians and textures they would have originally used if they were working alone on their apartments  (30 minutes)

(20 minutes) have them share how they changed their apartments from the way they had it when they were working with the interior designer

cut out of magazines different furniture that suites their style to display on a poster-board with their apartments (45 minutes)

Informal presentations explaining why you chose to put what you did on your poster and how this contributes to their own style (45 minutes)

(45 minutes)  Group discussion on topic:  what is so important about style?  What kinds of barriers are you breaking down by having an open mind about other's styles?

How well did this lesson plan convey to the students the importance of style and how it is relevant to them?

Notebooks:  Are the notes accurate? 

Notes on class discussion:  Who contributed?  Who didn't?  Why do you think that is?

Presentations:  How well did they answer the questions?  How well were their communication skills?  Did they have good eye contact with the audience?

Were the presentation guidelines specific enough?  How so?  How not?

Were the directions detailed enough for the students?  How could they be more specific?

Was discussion time too long?  Too short?