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1			Activity 1 Directions: Canada’s Department of Justice recommends using "gender-neutral language." Their website provides suggestions for using pronouns that do not indicate whether the person they refer to is male or female. How do you feel about incorporating such words into English? Do you think they make language "more equal" ?
2			Activity 2 Directions: Go to this online library of short stories and read one. Pay close attention to the author’ suse of pronouns. Does he or she always use them correctly? If not, do you think the mistakes are intentional? Think about how fiction writing is sometimes different from formal writing.