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How does mass media use both visual and written text to influence our understanding of social norms?
How does mass media use both visual and written text to influence our understanding of social norms?
To what extent does mass media influence our ideological understandings?
To what extent does mass media influence our ideological understandings?
COURSE COMPONENTS ADDRESSED IN THIS UNIT
COURSE COMPONENTS ADDRESSED IN THIS UNIT
Concepts: Identity + Communication
Area of Exploration: Readers, writers, text + intertextuality
Fields of inquiry: Culture, identity, community + Beliefs, values, education + Art, creativity, imagination + Power, politics and justice.
ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
Various formative paragraph responses and analyses
Formal analysis (summative)
Group presentations and responses (formative)
Guided portfolio entries (formative and summative)
Independent portfolio entries (formative and summative)
Creative tasks (summative and formative)
In this unit on media representations of gender, we will be exploring how both men and women are represented in various multi-modal bodies of work. Our studies will explore how these representations create social norms and influence the way we see ourselves and others. We will be jumping between this unit and our other units of study as we explore representations of gender in both literary and non-literary texts.
Cosmopolitan Magazine Covers
Cosmopolitan Magazine Covers
WEEK 2
WEEK 2
L/O: To explore the Big 5 and practice our analysis skill through the exploration of a magazine cover
Tuesday, Aug.16
Annotating a magazine cover - Zooey Deschanel
Wednesday, Aug. 17 & Thursday, Aug.18
No Lesson - Induction Camp
Week 3
Week 3
L/O: To unpack a Cosmopolitan magazine covers through discussion and annotation
L/O: To consider the media's role in enforcing dangerous ideaologies about women and gender roles through an exploration of Joan Killbourne's 2014 TedTalk
L/O: To introduce "guided textual analysis" and review how to write strong thesis statements
Tuesday, Aug. 23
Discussing our annotations from last lesson
Complete questions on the video for tomorrow's lesson
Wednesday, Aug. 24
Review Questions and key terms
In groups, working on annotating your assigned cover - Jamboard
HW: complete your jamboard annotations
Friday, Aug. 26 (double)
Presentations
Introduction to Guided Textual Analysis
Writing thesis statements for Zooey Deschanel cover in groups
Gallery walk - Post-it tips and tops
If you are interested in hearing from from Jean Kilbourne on women in adverstising. You can check out her full documentary "Killing Us Softly 4"
Week 4
Week 4
L/O: Undertanding how to structure a guided textual analysis and the assessment criteria for this assessment
L/O: Practisin our planning, writing and analysis skills through an individual GTA assignment.
Tuesday, Aug. 30
Review group thesis statements
Looking at the assessment rubric (Paper 1)
Looking at a student sample
HW: Please review the assessment criteria and GTA planning document for discussion tomorrow.
Wednesday, Aug. 31
Working on plans
HW: Plan should be complete for next lesson - upload to M.bac
Friday, Sept. 2
Working on your formal written GTA
HW: Complete analysis due for peer editing Sept.13.
HW: Final submission due: Thursday, Sept. 15. 8am in M.bac - note: We don't have English this day. Early submission due to day off on 16th.
Extended Writing Connectives (2).pdfWeek 5 (Camps Week)
Week 5 (Camps Week)
L/O: To understand the IB definition of a global issue
L/O: To understand the expectations of the GI presentation
L/O: To finalize the GI presentation schedule
Tuesday, Sept. 6 (double)
Introduction to the Global Issues Presentation
Sample presentations (visual and textual)
Time to work on essays (if time)
HW: Complete Cosmopolitan analysis due for peer editing Sept.13.
HW: Final submission due: Thursday, Sept. 15. 8:15am in M.bac - note: We don't have English this day. Early submission due to day off on 16th.
Week 6
Week 6
L/O: To peer edit our GTA essays and undertand the formatting requirements
L/O: To explore a variety of Cosmopolitan covers in order to understand various structural and thematic trends.
Tuesday, Sept. 13
GTA peer editing
Review submission requirements
HW: Final submission due: Thursday, Sept. 15. 8:15am in M.bac - note: We don't have English this day. Early submission due to day off on 16th.
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Friday, Sept. 16
NO CLASSES - REST DAY :)
Below is the format that your bibliography should take. All essays should have at least one entry in their bibliography (the cover you are analysing)
Bibliography
Cosmopolitan Magazine. Month,year. Print
PEER EDITING ROUNDS
PEER EDITING ROUNDS
1) Thesis statement, topic sentences and conclusion sentences - are these all included? Can you easily identify them? Does the thesis have clear whats and hows? Do the topic sentences address at least one how and its connection to a what?
2) PEA - can you identify each section of their body paragraphs? Does their evidence match their point? Are they spending the majority of their paragraph on analysis?
3) Conclusion - Does it revisit the thesis? Interesting final ideas?
4) Spelling, grammar, transitions, and connectives - Does the response include clear and varied connectives and transitions? Are these used properly? Double check for proper spelling, possessive s, commas, capitalization, no first person pronouns (I, me, you), avoid contractions, tense (present tense throughout) etc.
Week 7
Week 7
L/O: To explore a variety of Cosmopolitan covers in order to understand various structural and thematic trends.
L/O: To consider global issues present in Cosmopolitan as a body of work
Tuesday, Sept. 20
Wednesday, Sept. 21
Debrief - GIs in Cosmopolitan - speed dating
Class debrief - adding to our documents
Update on LPs
Overview of new LP requirements:
A google folder will be shared with all of you
All work should be put in the folder
If you already have an English folder, you can just add it to the shared folder
You will still need to include additional entries and include all work provided in the LP checklist
Checklist will be provided 2 week in advance of deadline
Assessment will take place at the end of each semester
Pass/Fail with comment on your reports
If you would like to continue with a website or hardcopy folder you can.
End of Unit on Cosmopolitan
End of Unit on Cosmopolitan
Term 2 - Week 5
Term 2 - Week 5
L/O: Completing our exploration of Duffy's poetry
L/O: Exploring the concept of toxic masculinity as represented in the film "The Mask You Live In"
Tuesday, Nov. 22
Thoughts on masculinity - what makes a man?
Fill in the first column of this worksheet on representations of masculinity
HW: Complete the first column of your representations of masculinity worksheet for tomorrow's lesson.
Wednesday, Nov. 23
"The Mask you Live in" film - filling in second column
HW: Finish watching the film at home and complete the second column of the worksheet on representations of masculinity
Friday, Nov. 25
finish watching the film
Debrief the documentary
Report card comments due in this Google Form by Monday, Nov. 28, 8:15am
The Mask You Live In
Copy of The Mask You Live In (1280x720).mp4
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