Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

Activity 1: “Analyze Biases”

Students research, analyze, and present biases in their own culture or in cultures around the world.

From a modern perspective, Baroness Orczy’s novel is written with a clear cultural bias. However, at the time it was written, many people shared her biased views.

• Review or investigate Baroness Orczy’s bias and how it is reflected in the novel.
• Consider some cultural biases that are common today that many may be unaware of, or biases that many people support.
• Select a culture or cultures to analyze. Research cultural bias(es) for that group, then create a slideshow presentation using the discussion points below.
• Explain how biases shift and change with time and cultural changes.
• Describe the difficulties in overcoming cultural biases.
• Develop a theory on how to effect change on biases.
• Draw comparisons between the cultural biases of Orczy’s novel and the biases that are reflected in the culture you researched.
• Biases may include:
• Attitudes toward types of work
• Religious biases
• Social class biases
• Racial biases
• Extracurricular biases (such as computer gaming vs.