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Because I am a Girl

This scheme of work accompanies the report ‘Because I am a Girl: The state of the world's girls’, published by Plan. The report highlights that girls are getting a raw deal. They face the double discrimination of their gender and their age, in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder.

The work explores issues of gender inequality to develop an awareness of the situation for girls worldwide, access to education, the differing life experiences of girls around the world, and begins to develop political literacy.

Students will begin to compare their own lives to those of young people living in the developing world and learn how they can play an active role in campaigning.

The materials are developed for Key Stage 3 and consist of four lessons with accompanying resources. The lessons are all clearly mapped to national curriculum attainment targets.

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