We continued our Gender unit today by looking at the way in which society has had an impact on the way in which we view the female body through history. Here is one of the excerpts we had the class analyze and excerpt.
Hello everyone,
Welcome back to our last full week before Thanksgiving! Here's what happened in class today:
Welcome back to our last full week before Thanksgiving! Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
I can communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
I can apply understanding of ideas and concepts to a new context or problem.
I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
I can effectively conduct and apply research.
Soundtrack: "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz. Selected for today because we are continuing to look at the role of gender in our society. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/14/17:
Check-In/Review Agreements/Pass Back Letters
Current Event
Gender Pronouns
Documentary Questions and Discussion
The Body Project
Homework: Read the blog! Finish your documentary reflection questions! Next Current Event: Quinn, Lauren, and Tony.
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Check In/Review Agreements: At the beginning of class, we went over the Courageous Conversations Agreements, as always, to begin our work together for the day. After checking in, we talked for a bit about what is happening in the world outside of class, before moving on. I also passed back student letters from the beginning of the year with my comments - we hope that you are enjoying the class as much as you hoped you would be!
Current Event: After checking in, we turned it over to Esraa D., Miryana C., Brooklyn G., and Kate B. who had the Current Event for the day. This is the presentation that they led us through:
The article they took a look at is here:
I love how the current events have all had significant ties to what we are learning about in class!
As a reminder, this is the assignment for the current event:
The article they took a look at is here:
I love how the current events have all had significant ties to what we are learning about in class!
As a reminder, this is the assignment for the current event:
The next Current Event will be the group of: Quinn, Lauren, and Tony.
Gender Pronouns: Next, we wanted to do the activity we saw in the gender documentary, where we practiced identifying ourselves using our names, gender identity, and preferred pronouns. For example, I would say: My name is Luke, I am a cisgender male, and I use he/him/his pronouns. The goal here was to become more comfortable using this language of identification.
What was your overall impression of the documentary?
Did you find yourself experiencing discomfort? How so?
What did you learn about gender?
Is there any information you learned that you will be able to use in the future, with your interactions with peers, family, or children?
If you have not turned this in via Google Classroom, please do so. We had a conversation in class about our reactions to the film - thank you for your engagement here!
The Body Project: The last part of class was spent analyzing the role of society's expectations on women throughout history. These images were selected from a book I had in college at Western Oregon University in a Gender Studies class, called The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, which I highly recommend. Here are the images we cut up and had students analyze:
Part of the book has to deal with the obsession over what a woman should look like, so we wanted students to look at these historical examples, annotate them like Mrs. Labossiere did at the start of the unit with Serena Williams, and find connections to present day examples. We shared out what we found at the end of class! Thank you for your continued effort and work!
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