052 – ATTACKS AND EMOTIVE LANGUAGE

DO NOW
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. What does this mean?

LEARNING INTENTION

  • Check understanding of appeals
  • Explore verbal attacks, ridicule and emotive language

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I have:

  • Check my answers in the appeals section
  • Begun working on attacks and emotive language section

TASK
Complete 3.18, 3.20 and 3.21.
Extension: 3.25 – 3.30 (a,b and d)

051 – HOLIDAY HMK & LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

DO NOW
Fewer vs less – when should you use one and not the other?

Singular: Less Plural: Fewer
Candy is . . . less candy M&Ms are . . . fewer M&Ms
Water is . . . less water Glasses of water are . . . fewer glasses of water
Potato salad is . . . less potato salad Potatoes are . . . fewer potatoes


LEARNING INTENTION

  • Review holiday homework
  • Continue working on language analysis skills

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I understand the importance of, and have identified, the following in persuasive writing:

  • adjective, nouns, verbs – vocabulary choices
  • positive, negative and neutral connotations
  • euphemisms

TASK

  • Read the section entitled Imagery and Figurative Language
  • Complete 3.11 – 3.13

024 – FINAL PREP FOR MEDIA INFLUENCE SAC

 

DO NOW
What questions popped up in the holidays relating to Media Influence that we can look at as a class now?

LEARNING INTENTION

  • Finish preparation for Media Influence SAC

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I have:

  • Complete two practice questions
  • Reviewed the response of my peers and explored model answers

TASK​
Answer the following questions in 15 mins:

  1. Question 1 (4 marks)
    Theories of media influence and communication models often refer to audiences as ‘passive’ or ‘active’. Discuss how the terms ‘passive’ and ‘active’ relate to audiences and media influence.
  2. Question 2 (5 marks)
    Compare two communication theories or models that attempt to explain how audiences are influenced by the media. Use one that says that the media is very influential and one that says the media has less influence.
  3. Review a classmates answers: what was good? what was unclear?
  4. Look at the model answers at the end of the slide show on the Weebly

024 – MEDIA INDUSTRY PRODUCTION

DO NOW
What recent development of discussion in the world of Media has interested you and why? For example, my favourite podcast, Download This Show, did a segment on Donald Trump’s tweet and made the assertion that if he was an ordinary person he would probably have been booted of by now. He has used his Tweeter account to insult people and incite violence, which ordinary, less famous people, have had their accounts deactivated for. This is fascinated me because it made me question whether social media is as open and democratic as it claims to be.

LEARNING INTENTION

  • Complete Media Industry Production SAC

SUCCESS CRITERIA

I have created a bibliography that follows the APA Style.

TASK

Review you bibliography and make sure it follows the APA Style. This is the formatting most universities expect for bibliographies. This is a link to a simple overview of what the APA Style involves. Below is the section on citing websites. If you have used books or articles, you will need to click on the above link. If all you have used in your research are websites, then you can simply refer to the information below.

Add the URL for online publications. When citing an article or other source that you found online, it is helpful to include the url. At the end of your reference, include the words “Retrieved from” and then provide the url.[8]

  • Example: Eid, M., & Langeheine, R. (1999). The measurement of consistency and occasion specificity with latent class models: A new model and its application to the measurement of affect. Psychological Methods, 4, 100-116. Retrieved from http: // www.apa.org/journals/exampleurl
  • You do not need to include your date of access for APA references.

COMPARATIVE ESSAY FEEDBACK

DO NOW

What do your parents say about bullies? What do teachers say about uniform?

LEARNING INTENTION

  • Understand common errors in practice comparative pieces
  • Understand the requirements of a comparative essay

SUCCESS CRITERIA

  • I have understood the feedback
  • I understand what is meant by the phrase ‘say about’
  • I have created a revision sheet

TASK

Create and double sided revision sheet that details the following:

  • Comparative essay structure
  • Steps of planning your response

COMMON ERRORS

  • Not writing in your own words
    • Memorising the comparative essay structure (slide 2)
  • Time management
    • 15-20 mins planning
    • plan + intro and main (period 1)
    • main x 2 + conclusion + editing (period 2)
  • Codes
    • YOTAOT – you only talk about one text
    • NAQ – not a quote
    • NT – Not True
    • ARTS – Avoid Retelling The Story
    • TI – Too Informal
    • AP – Awkward Phrasing
    • WC – word choice

050 – GENDER ROLES

DO NOW

  • What is the meaning of the title The Help? Write a paragraph to explain your answer.

LEARNING INTENTION

  • To compare gender roles are explore in each text

SUCCESS CRITERIA

  • I have completed one mind map for each text of on gender roles
TASK
  • Turn to a blank page in your book
  • Turn in landscape
  • Write the name of the text and gender roles  in a small bubble in the center
  • Create a mind map that illustrates the different roles played by female characters in the text and whether they conformed to societies expectations or not.
  • Repeat the above for the second text

RESOURCES ON GENDER

THE HELP

The Help looks at rules and norms governing gender in a Mississippi town in the early 1960s. White women are valued in society by their ability to produce children, who are then to be cared for by black women. Few jobs are available for women of both races. Black women are expected to be passive workhorses, and to sacrifice their own homes and family lives for those of their white employers. Through writing and storytelling, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny all dare to challenge the gender roles society sets up from them and receive greater fulfillment in the process. Their challenges are also steps toward an overall healthier community in many ways.

TKAMB

Scout is a tomboy.  She prefers overalls to a dress.  She likes to play outside.  She gets in fist-fights with boys.  She is not lady-like.  Even though her name, Jean Louise, is feminine, most people call her the more boyish “Scout” instead.

For most of the book, calling Scout a girl is how her brother Jem insults her.

“See there?” Jem was scowling triumphantly. “Nothin’ to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.” (ch 4)

Yet Scout is a girl.  Jem seems to forgive her for that most of the time, until she says or does something that he doesn’t like.  Then he brings up the girl stereotype.

Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. (ch 4)

Jem changes his attitude as he gets older, and he starts to feel like Scout should act a certain way, telling her “It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!” (ch 4).

In fact, everyone tells Scout how she should act.  Her aunt thinks she should wear a dress and sit in on parties.

I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. (ch 9)

Aunt Alexandra has the stereotypical view of a girl playing with dolls and tea sets.

There are also examples of society’s attitudes toward women and girls when at the rape trial they want to clear the court-room because the topic is not appropriate for ladies.  Atticus also expresses a sexist view of women when explaining to Scout why women can’t serve on juries.

I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s. Besides,” Atticus grinned, “I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried- the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.” (ch 23)

As forward-thinking as Atticus is on matters of race, he is not so on matters of gender.

Yet by presenting us with Scout, Lee gives us hope for change.  If all girls acted like Scout, perhaps more women would someday be on juries.  Women can be smart and independent.

050 – ENDING AND THEME ANALYSIS

DO NOW

What is the meaning of the title The Help? Write a paragraph to explain your answer.

LEARNING INTENTION

  • To explore the resolution of each text
  • To compare the way justice and gender roles are explore in each text

SUCCESS CRITERIA

  • I have explored the ending of each text and thought what is resolved and what remains unexplained
  • I have thought about the informal and formal structures in each text that contribute to the injustice represented in each and explore how each is shaped by the actions of the protagonist
  • I have complete a mind map of on the themes of justice and gender roles

RESOURCES ON GENDER

TH

The Help looks at rules and norms governing gender in a Mississippi town in the early 1960s. White women are valued in society by their ability to produce children, who are then to be cared for by black women. Few jobs are available for women of both races. Black women are expected to be passive workhorses, and to sacrifice their own homes and family lives for those of their white employers. Through writing and storytelling, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny all dare to challenge the gender roles society sets up from them and receive greater fulfillment in the process. Their challenges are also steps toward an overall healthier community in many ways.

TKAMB

Scout is a tomboy.  She prefers overalls to a dress.  She likes to play outside.  She gets in fist-fights with boys.  She is not lady-like.  Even though her name, Jean Louise, is feminine, most people call her the more boyish “Scout” instead.

For most of the book, calling Scout a girl is how her brother Jem insults her.

“See there?” Jem was scowling triumphantly. “Nothin’ to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.” (ch 4)

Yet Scout is a girl.  Jem seems to forgive her for that most of the time, until she says or does something that he doesn’t like.  Then he brings up the girl stereotype.

Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. (ch 4)

Jem changes his attitude as he gets older, and he starts to feel like Scout should act a certain way, telling her “It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!” (ch 4).

In fact, everyone tells Scout how she should act.  Her aunt thinks she should wear a dress and sit in on parties.

I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. (ch 9)

Aunt Alexandra has the stereotypical view of a girl playing with dolls and tea sets.

There are also examples of society’s attitudes toward women and girls when at the rape trial they want to clear the court-room because the topic is not appropriate for ladies.  Atticus also expresses a sexist view of women when explaining to Scout why women can’t serve on juries.

I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s. Besides,” Atticus grinned, “I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried- the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.” (ch 23)

As forward-thinking as Atticus is on matters of race, he is not so on matters of gender.

Yet by presenting us with Scout, Lee gives us hope for change.  If all girls acted like Scout, perhaps more women would someday be on juries.  Women can be smart and independent.

049 – TKAMB v THE HELP

DO NOW

What is the most important scene in The Help and why?

LEARNING INTENTION

  • Explore the social tensions present in TKAMB/TH

SUCCESS CRITERIA

  • I understand what social tension means and how it relate to the setting of each text.
  • I have explore how the protagonist of each text were impacted by the social tension

 

048 – OVERVIEW COMPARISON: THE HELP v TKAMB

DO NOW

Do you think Skeetar’s book is likely to have an affect on formal or informal structures in society? Explain your answer.

LEARNING INTENTION

  • To begin comparing The Help and TKAMB

SUCCESS CRITERIA

  • I understand how the texts are similar/different in terms of setting/context, plot, narrative structure, characters, symbols, ideas, issues and themes