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The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. What does this mean?
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I have:
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Complete 3.18, 3.20 and 3.21.
Extension: 3.25 – 3.30 (a,b and d)
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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 |
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I understand the importance of, and have identified, the following in persuasive writing:
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What questions popped up in the holidays relating to Media Influence that we can look at as a class now?
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I have:
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Answer the following questions in 15 mins:
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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.
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I have created a bibliography that follows the APA Style.
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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.
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What do your parents say about bullies? What do teachers say about uniform?
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Create and double sided revision sheet that details the following:
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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.
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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.
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What is the meaning of the title The Help? Write a paragraph to explain your answer.
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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.
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What is the most important scene in The Help and why?
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Do you think Skeetar’s book is likely to have an affect on formal or informal structures in society? Explain your answer.
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Diagram this sentence: The intelligent boy ran really quickly.
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VOCAB
Protagonist – the main character in a text
Formal structures – the legal system
Informal structures – social rules/class system
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The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. This time of great turmoil and
change is important to the history of the United States. While The Help is a fictional story, it is
set in a real time and place, dealing with real events that occurred in the United States.
One of the real life events rooted in The Help is the death of Medgar Evers. Evers was a
prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, Mississippi. His death is the impetus in
the film for Aibileen and Minny to help Skeeter collect the stories of all the women who
contributed to the book, The Help.
Although changing people’s beliefs about why people should all be treated equally is a
very big and challenging topic that can’t be solved in a day, a lot of it begins with
understanding. We can’t begin to understand other people unless we open up dialogue
with others about our differences. As we learn more and more about people who are
different than us, we can begin to realize that differences should be embraced for what
they add to the fabric of our communities instead of being feared.
“Change begins with a whisper.” As we see in The Help, change does indeed begin with a whisper. We saw Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter band together, share stories and give a voice to a subject important to them.
Much of The Help takes place in the kitchen. Ailbileen, Minny and Skeeter sit around Ailbileen’s
kitchen table while they share the stories that contributed to the book. Celia Foote and Minny
bond in the kitchen over recipes that Minny knew by heart and passed along to Celia to help her
overcome her disastrous ways in the kitchen. Minny is a wonderful cook and introduces Celia to
some amazing food. Before that, Celia only really knew how to make Corn Pone. What is Corn
Pone and how does it help define Celia’s background? Hilly and the other women in the Junior
League are all fairly wealthy and college-educated women. Celia Rae Foote is from Sugar Ditch, a
very poor area of Mississippi, and is not received well by the other women.
Q. In this film, both unjust formal legal systems and unjust informal social systems and structures are
presented. Where do you see evidence of such systems and structures in the film? Why is it
necessary to change both informal and formal structures to achieve justice? Do such systems
reinforce each other? Is it harder to bring about change in legal systems or in social systems?
Do we still have informal systems that support racism even though laws have changed?