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Today we worked on the opposing claim paragraph of our media critique essays. Agenda:
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Today we talk about what serves as quality analysis to stress how important this is to the argument. I tried to get them excited about this by reminding them it's an argument - they love to do this! Agenda
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Today's lesson asked students to organize their supporting arguments and gather supporting evidence (from the piece of media chosen) and from class texts.) Agenda:
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Today we began our introduction paragraph of our media critique. *In the future, this may be an independent homework after writing the body or at least done in class after the body. I'm not sure... Agenda:
Introducing a project is always tough. I tried to use an interesting, professional model to get students interested in our media critique project. Agenda:
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This class brought up the topics of street harassment and victim-blaming (without naming it as such). Many students (males and females) said women were responsible for men staring at them if they wore revealing clothing. Below are some resources that serve as a response to these comments. Here's the video that's been in social media lately, showing clips from 10 hours of a woman walking in NYC. This is a feminist response to a middle school's ban on girls wearing tight pants because it "distracts the boys." This is a critical response to the above video, created by women of color, addressing the lack of white men in the video footage. This chart helps us remember when a woman is to blame for something that is done to her.
Today in seminar, we touched upon the idea of women who are in abusive relationships. Some people said women are stupid to stay in these relationships and should stand up for themselves. Others said it's hard to leave those relationships for different reasons. Below are some resources that address this topic, including current events and feminist responses. Here's a timeline of the events that followed Ray Rice, a professional football player, hitting his wife. This is a video by feminist Laci Green, discussing the difficulties of women leaving abusive relationships. Here are several tweets from women who are survivors of domestic violence, using the hashtag: #WhyIStayed. Today we examine what it could look like to reject hegemonic masculinity. We discuss bystander intervention (without introducing the term as a formal vocabulary term) and men as feminists. We also read an excerpt from the anthology Men Speak Out. Agenda:
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Today's lesson looks at masculinity in hip-hop, using a current events article and clips from Byron Hurt's Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Agenda:
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